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THE IDENTIT*Y 



OLD IMIITFOIII) CONVENTION FEDERALISTS 



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CAREFULLY ILLUSTRATED BY LIVING SPECIMENS, 

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Old party distinctions are revived. The Fund- 
ino- and National Debt and National Bank sys- 
tems of Hamilton, which Jefferson weakened, 
Jackson vetoed, and Van Buren abolished, are 
strenuously urged again by the party that so clam- 
orously support William, H. Harrison for Pres- 
ident. Willie General Harrison is held up at the 
Soutii a.s opposed to a United States Bank, he is 
known to be under the guidance of men at the 
North, who Tuean by " Reform " the restoration 
of a United States Bank. 

To disguise the end, it is pretended by those 
who use Harrison as the " instrument " to re- 
vive Federalism and the Bank, that they are in 
fact the Democratic party, the disciples of Jeffer- 
son and Madison ; while Jackson, Van Buren, and 
the supporters of their administrations, are the old 
Federalists ! 

Fatuity could not have feigned, nor credulity 
compassed, that such a pretence would be set up, 
had we not seen that there are men among us, 
claiming to have rational souls, wlio make the 
drinking of hard cider the rallying test and stim- 
ulus of their party. Having seen tlus, we may 
well be prepared to see any thing, however ab- 
surd, from such a party. 

In the Boston Atlas of August 4, 1840, may be 
found the following : — 

" The present VVhi^s are not the old Hartford Con- 
vention Federalists. We all know that that class of pol- 
iticians became dissatisfied with John Q. Adams, and 
pending the second canvass went over to Andrew Jack- 
son ! The ffreat Republican partxj adhered to their 
allegiance, and were then as they nam arc, true Demo- 
crats of the Jefferson school, constituting the 
PRESENT Whig party." 

The recklessness of Whiggery leaves nothing 
sacred. History must be turned out of doors, and 
Falsehood put in her place. Since, then, this al- 
leged change of old parties is to be falsely as- 
sumed to practise on the young men who have 
not examined the subject, it becomes indispensa- 
ble to put it right. Let those who have sought to 
seize the monument of Jefferson, and place itover 
the bones of Federalism, thank themselves for 
having compelled us to restore it to its right 
place, with its true inscription, and expose the 
rottenness it has been made to cover. We would 
pain no living man connected with those scenes. 
Many of them are venerable, and most estimable 
ia private life. We would tread lightly on the 



ashes of the dead ; but truth — historic truth — 
eternal truth"^— must not, and shall not, be sacri- 
ficed. 

Assertions are so recklessly made in these 
times, by systematic writers of falsehood, that the 
man of truth is rarely believed on his mere word. 
We sliall therefore support every assertion with 
proof, and this will necessarily make the detail 
of evidence somewhat voluminous. Its impor- 
tance will repay a patient examination. 

The assertion of the British Whig party, who 
support Harrison, is, that theij are the true JefTer- 
sonian, Democratic Republican party; and that 
the old Hartford Convention Federalists have 
gone over to Jackson and Van Buren in a body ! 

This assertion is impudently made here in Mas- 
sachusetts, in the leading organ of Mr. Daniel 
{Webster. Here, then, it should be examined ; 
for Massachusetts was the cradle of the Hartford 
Convention, as she has been, and will continue 
to be, the drath-hed, of old parties. 

This assertion in the Atlas has a meanintr. It 
follows clo.'ie upon the display of " the signify 
CA.NT banner " at Baltimore, by the Boston Har- 
rison Delegation, and closer still upon the decla- 
ration of Mr. Daniel Webster, at the Log Cabin 
gathering in Alexandria, in the District of Co- 
lumbia, the 1 1th of June last, when he pledged 
his men of the North to go with the men of the 
South, in electing Harrison to the Presidency. 

That was a meeting ominous to the South, 
deceptive to the North. 

The secret policy of tampering with the AboU' 
tionists of the JYorth, had been perfected so far 
as it could be carried without endangering the 
Sovth. Mr. Webster relied on party machinery 
to carry the Whig Abolitionists of his section, let 
him say what he would to the Soutli ; and he took 
the occasion at Alexandria, just upon the disclo- 
sure of General Harrison's secret letter .to Mr. 
Evans, to proclaim on alliance with the South, in 
the hope of strengthening General Harrison in 
that section, and doing away the effect of the 
discovery of^ Mr. William B. Calhoim's corre- 
spondence with the ."Vbolitionists of Massachusetts. 
These are the memorable words Mr. Webster 
used on that occasion : — 

"WE have mahe William Henry Harrisoh 
the bearer of OUR Standard ! " 

Who are they, and what in their standard ? 



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Where have they ever been, and where do they 
ever mean to be? • 

This is not the first time that Mr. Webster has 
efficiated in the ceremony of a left-handed mar- 
riage between the Federalists of Massachusetts 
and the Whigs of the South and West. 

The 10th of November, l>i'^7, Mr. John Bell, 
of Tennessee, appeared at a great Whig meeting 
in Faneuil Hall, Boston, and standing beside 
Daniel Webster, who presided in that meeting, 
Mr. Bfll exclaimed, " Tennessee is in princu'le 
WITH Massachusetts." 

The same men who stood by Mr. Webster to 
ratify that alliance, the John Davises, the Benja- 
min Russelis, the I. C. Bateses, and the Salton- 
stalls, are now his vouchers for the pledge at 
Alexandria. Who and where aie fAcy.? 

Daniel Webster was tlu? author of the Rock- 
ingliam Circular, adopted by a Convention of 
Federalists in New Hampshire, denouncing the 
war, from whicii he was transferred to Congress. 
Previous to this, in IdllU, he delivered an oration, 
tlie 4th of July, before '• Uic Federal, gentlemen " 
of Concord, N. H., in which lie inveiirhed against 
President Jellersoa, and denounced him for his 
love of peace and regard to economy. 

'^ Patriotism," said he, " has given place to the spiiit 
of economy, llegard to national honor is absorbed in 
a thirst for gain, and a desire to gave." 

In his pampiilet against the Embargo, Mr. 
Webster said of JelTerson — 

" When a man's pretensions are utterly inconsistent 
wilk his actions, his pretensions must be false. The 
motive assigned for laying the embargo, was never llie 
ti-ue motive. When we have a 15ritisli war, we of 
pourie [shall] have a French alliance, and surrender our 
lilierties and independence to llic protection of Bona- 
parte." 

In 1812, at a Federal Convention held in Brent- 
/ wood, Mr. Webster reported resolutions justifying 
/ the public enemy, and condemning his own. gov- 
\ ernment. 

^ While in Congress, he opposed tlie war at everj' 

I step. Among volumes of speeches, denouncing 

I the war and flie adininistratic^n, he said — 

^ " Utterly aslonislied at the declaration of war, I have 

been surprised at nothing since. I saw how it would be 

prosecuted, when 1 saw liow it was hegiin. There is an 

unchangeable rehilioii between rash councils ayd 

FEEBLE EXECUTION." 

"' They (the Federalists) know llie limit of ronslilii- 
lional opposition. Up to that limit they will walk, an<l 
walk fearlessly." 

He thus exulted at the defeat of our arms and 
the murderous inroads of the savages — 

"This is not the enterlai anient to which we were in- 
riled. We arc told that these disa|ip()intmenLs are 
owing to the opposition whicli the war encounters. Tliis 
is no new strain. It is the constant tune of evciy 
WE.4K or wuKKl) administration!" 

Let the; recorded votes of Mr. Webster in ('on- 
gress show where he was and ever has been. 

July 1, lHi:i, Daniel Webster voted against a 
bill fur assessing and collectiuir taxes to sustain 
the war; July '.Itli, against ii bill for duties on 
refined sugars and sales at auction. 

January 7, 1HI4, he voted against a hill to (ill 
tlie ranks of tlf army ; January It), against a bill 
ti> delect and punish Irailors and spict ; .lanuary 
21!, against a bill to ijniist troops during the war, 
in a ininorily of senn ; January 2r>, against en- 
forcing the noii-imporlution laws; February H, 
againbt raising five regimentH ; March 2:t, against 
rnlling mit <he militia to exeeutf? the laws and ri-- 
|K.'.l invasi'Ui ; Deeeiiiber I, airainst providing 
ruvonue fur luaintaiiiing the public credit; De- 



ceniber 10," against calling on the States for their 
quotas of inilitia to defend the frontiers ; on the 
PJth, against a bill to provide for the expenses of 
the war, and against a lull to proride for rebuilding 
the Capitol and public offices, which had been burnt 
by the cnemi/ ! 

In the same spirit, in 1836, when we were 
tlireatened with a French war, and it was proposed 
to put means in the hands of Andrew Jackson to 
defend the country, Daniel Webster exclaimed in 
the United States Senate, " I would not vote for 
the bill if the enemy were battering dosvn the 
walls of the Capitol." 

A very natural sentiment from the man who 
voted against rebuilding the Capitol after the ene- 
my had burnt it down. 

So much for the Army. What did Mr. Web- 
ster do for the Navy ? He now pietends that 
was his I'avorite in the war, and the Federalists 
lately gave him a cane made from wood of Perry's 
flag-ship. What did he do for the Navy ? 

The 7th of January, 1811, Mr. Webster voted 
against an appropriation of one million, for de- 
fraying the expenses of the Xaxij ! This was less 
than lour months after the victory of Perry on the 
Lakes, so that had the country depeilded on 
Daniel Webster, the gallant Peny's tlag-sh'p could 
not have been kept afloat. 

The catalogue is not full, but it is sulrlcicnt. 

And who are Daniel Webster's associates in 
Massachusetts, who have made William llenry 
Harrison the bearer of their standard.? We iviU 
identify some of the leaders. 

John Davis, (the Federal Harrison candidate 
for Governor against the patriotic and incwrrupti- 
ble Marcus Morton.) And where has Jolui Davis 
been.' We have just stated that, in 1814, Mr. 
Webster voted against rebuilding the Capitol. 
How his associate, Mr. John Davis, received the 
news of that outrage, will appear from the follow- 
ing statement: — 

[From the WorcBSter Palladium.] 

SENATOR D.AVIS. 

" John Dnvis is llie man who oiive three CHEtr.s, f/t Ote 

sti-ecls iif Il'urccster, when he rece.ivid tht nrios thai Ihr. British 

army had sacked the city uf IVashiiiglun, and blunt tht 

Capitol." 

This statement wo made on the aiitlinrity of an un- 
impeachable witness, who stood within a few feet of Mr. 
Uavis at the time. All three of the Whig papers of this 
town, the Spy, the ./I'jgis, and the North Bend, have 
denied that any thing of the kind ever occurred, ai>d 
have hurled at the Palladium the keenest shahs their 
malice could command. But not intending to be 
browbeaten by them out of what we believed to be 
truth, we have persisted in llic truth of the statement, 
'i'lie /I'.gis has pursued us with singular virulence, de- 
claring as follows : — 

" It is iai.se that ever a man of our population rejoiced 
thai the C;ipit(il liad lieen captnied, sacked, and hnrned;" 
and lli;it " there is no person, nenllenian, or of other de- 
sciiptioM, now resi<lin[£ in Worcester, who will say thnthe 
ever knew or heard Mr. Davis, hy word or act, exult over 
any victory of tlie British, becanse siiili an ail was never 
doiic hy hiui. It is a lilirl im utir loirn In affirm thai any of 
ITS CITIZENS shouted when the intelliireiiec, which stirred 
every lireast with indigtuilion, ufthc<iuptareof li'ashinglon, 
was received." 

Now mark how plain a tale shall put our re\ ilcr 

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[From the National iTiRis of .'Viigiist HI, I6M.] 
" Iloiiiiiui.K Dcrn.wiTv. When the news of the cap- 
TCBK UK Wasiiinoton reached this toton, some of the 
LK.MJINC FKDKIt.XMt^TS «/ini/i/ erj»re.s-.sf(/ Mm- n ratifi- 
cation, miii^lul wilh a RKCKKT, that titr. I'KFSIDli.NT waa 
not iiwulvtd in the uesthoction nfthe (^'aimtoi, ! " 



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If we aro rightly informed, Iho Democratic /Egis of 
1814 (not llie Federal yEgis of It! 10) was under the 
control of a brother of the present editor of the yEgis. 
Of course we shall have no more denials from that quar- 
ter, that "some of the leading Federalists" of this 
town were so horribly depraved as to openly express 
their gratification at the destruction of the Capitol. 
Shall w c have any restrictions 1 Our accusation against 
Mr. Davis lags far behind that of the .iigis of 18U. We 
liave not accused him of expressing a " regret that the 
President was not involved in the destruction of the 
Capitol," though Irom the temper of his writings at that 
time, there can be little doubt that the destruction of 
ftJr. Madison would have sent a thrill of joy through the 
frame of a man whose daily habit it was to calumniate 
him as />ase. perjidiuiis, cowardly, and a ''buffoon.'' 

^ In 1816, the year after the war, the same Mr. 

^ John Davis delivered an oration on the 4th of Ju- 
ly, before the Federalists of Worcester. We give 
a few extracts, to show the cliaracter of that oration. 

'• Could Federalists exult in the discharge of severe 
and ungrateful duty, iliey might look back with proud 
satisfaction on their career." 

" What i.s our remuneration for the toil, the labor, 
a-nd the peril of that season of calamity 1 [the war]. Arc 
the Canadas subdued ? Have we any safer passport 
on the highway of nations ? On these subjects the 
boasted treaty which was sealed with the blood of thou- 
sands, is silent. What then are the trophies of that ob- 
durate combat ? National glory ? And what is that 
national glory achieved by the blood of thousands ? 
Ask tliat blazing meteor which consumed Moscow, and, 
sliorn of its beams, has set in the Western Ocean ' 
[Napoleon.] 

•' Our lesson, though less disastrous, is not much less 
humiliating. 

" When the tax-gatherer knocks at your doors, re- 
member that the tribute he demands, is the purchase of 
national glory. 

" When the fishermen sees his occupation gone, let 
him remember that his government have made the sac- 
ritice for national glory, 

"When the merchant murmurs that he is shut out 
from the West India trade, let him remember it was 
abandoned in quest of national glory. 

" When in the disguise of double duties you pay an 
exorbitant tax on all foreign commodities, [the 'J'ariil',] 
let it not escape your minds that this too is a tribute for 
national glory. 

" When you see the page of history which record.s 
the sacking of Alexandria, and the destruction of the 
Capitol, remember that these were only piopitialory 
ofTerings on the altarof ambition, to secure the blessing's 
of mxtioual glory. 

" The Federalists are gratified that they have enW 
so little, that they have boldly confronted tlie menaces of 
pawer, the wiles of ajnbition, and in the darkest times 
advocated those great measures which were calculated 
Jo accelerate the prosperity, and promote the permanent 
mterests of the nation ; while they have strenuouslv op- 
posed that narrow, self-destroying policy, which iras 
founded in party animosity, adapted to a foreign climate, 
and drew after it porerty, war, and the loss of inval- 
uable national privileges." 

This is the eulogy which that inodern pretender 
to the Jefferson school, " honest " ("■ av, honest ") 
John Davis, pronounced on tiie administrations of 
Jefferson and Madison. 

In the same oraffon, he extolled " the heroes of 
Chippewa and J\/'cw Orleans, who had redeemed 
their country from infamy," while the only indi- 
rect allusion to Harrison, was as one of the actors 
'• m that storm of rapid proclamalions which 
howled along our JVorthern border." 
^ Mr. Davis now holds the office of United States 
Senator, under the Mas.saclmsetts Federal Whigs, 
and is also their candidate for (ro^rernor. 

For several years he was their agent to collect 
the militia claims of Massachusetts for her share 
in achieving what Mr. Davis sneered at as the 
moonshine of national glory ! 



Take a hricf history of another of these " Whigs 
of the Jefferson school," who is associated with 
Mr. Webster in making General Harrison the 
bearer of their standard. 

IsA.\c C. B.\TKS, one of the Harrison electors 
for Massachusetts, and a missionary of the Harris- 
burg Convention. 

July 14th, l!?12, this same Mr. Isaac C. Bates 
was secretary of the Federal Convention for Hamp- 
shire, Franklin, and Hampden, held at JNorthamp- 
ton, to denounce the war, every living man of 
which convention, save one, is now a Harrison 
Whig. Mr. Bates was chosen one of the Commit- 
tee of Safety, with Lyman, and Strong, and oth- 
ers, every living man of whom is now a high 
Whig, viz. Joseph Lyman, the Whig Sheriff of 
Northampton county, a surviving member of the 
Hartford C<;nventi<in ; Richard E. J\cwcouib, Judge 
of Probate for Franklin ; Leicis Utrvjig, son of 
Governor Caleb Strong ; Elijah Mvord, Register 
of Probate for Franklin ; George Grenncll, Whig 
member of the last congress ; and 

O.MVEu B. MoRiiis, Judge of Probate for Hamp- 
den, and Mr. IV. B. Calhoun s confidential corre- 
spondent, to whom he wrote the letter {not to get 
into the ncwsptipers) to be used to satisfy the Abo- 
litionists that General Harrison was icith them, 
and would do all in his power for emancipation. 

That Conventi'in, of which these living Whigs 
were most prominent members, adopted a memo- 
rial calling on the President forthwith to make 
peace with Great Britain; and they 

" 7?f.?o/i-cf/, That our rulers [James Madisoh, ikc] 
have prostrated our national cliaracter, sacrificed our 
vital interests, and finally involved us unjirepared in the 
calamities of war." 

This manifesto was signed by Isaac C. Bates 
as secretary. 

And he is the same man who, in February, 
1812, pronounced an oration before " the Wash- 
ington Benevolent Society" of the county of 
Hampshire, in which he eulogized Ames and 
Hamilton as patriots, and denounced Jeffersoa 
and Madison as traitors. Hamilton's system of 
KEVENiE — the very thing Mr. Van Buren and the 
Democracy are opposing — he called 

'• The main artery of the body politic, which even the 
Vandal hand of this administration [Madison's] dare 
not cut." 

Of the British treaty, the famous Jay treaty, 
lie said, " We owe to it more of our prosperity 
than I can recount." 

Of Jefferson and Madison he said, 

"By none were these measures and President Wash- 
ington himself assailed with more fatal efi'ect, than liy 
Mr. Madison and Mr. Jeifkrson. 'I'he one led the 
o|)position in the House of Representatives ; the other 
aljandoned his ( 'abinet." 

Mr. Bales .also sneeringly compared Thomas 
Jefferson to Tom Paine, and exclaimed, " jPar 
vohlle fratrum!" Here is a right "Jefferson 
Whig," truly. 

Mr. Bates is also the man who, in 1813, as a 
member of the Massachusetts Legislature, opjjosed 
the war at every stej). He also was prominent in 
supporting resolutions that the admission jf i.,ou- 
isiana into the Union was a violation of the Con- 
stitution, and directing the delegation in congress 
to obtain a re|)eal of the act of admission. Oppo- 
sition to Louisiana was a cardinal virtue with the 
Hartford Convention Federalists. And 7M)jc these 
same men appeal to Louisiana to Iiel]) them elect 
Harrison ; and this same Mr. Isaac C. Bates was 
a principal agent in the nomination- of General 
Harrison at Harrisburg, and is now at the head 
OF the list of Harrison electors for Massackusettg. 



He also Iiolds the office of commissioner on in.l.- Th.s same Mr. Saltonstall .s now a Wh.ff mera- 
tia dahi s growin.. out of the war he so velic- ber of congress, ar.d one of the '• Wh,g Executive 
nitonnoed ° Committee " for the nation, who tell the people 

Hon Lkvfhktt Saltonstall is another of that their o6/«r.s " the restoration of the go vern- 
Mr Webster's associates in makm^ General Hnr- ment to the days of her judrud Presidents. 
Sson the standard-bearer of the old Federal party, Mr. S. has violently opposed or denounced eve- 
u,Xr their new name. ry Republican President from Jefterson to Van^ 

M. Saltoastall, in July, 1812, was chosen, with Buren. He never approved any admin.strat.on 
Timothy Pickering, delegate to the Federal rebel but of the two Adamses. He was chairman of 
convention held in Boston, August (i, \^\2, to op- the conm.ittee of arrangements at the gi eat Wing 
D°s. the war He voted for an address on that dinner m Salem to Mr. Webster, m the panic ot 
V .\\» r„\^\rh >*iv<i— 1*^:^4, and was master of ceremonies m receiving 

occa.sion, which says - ^ Mr. John Bell, in 1«37, when he came to lay Teu- 

" In an evil hour, Mr. Jefferson gamed Ihe President s j^py^^^j ^^ ^j^^. j-j^j.^ ^f the Federalists of Massa- 
chusetts. 

We will sketch but one more of General Harri- 
son's aids in supporting the Federal standard. 
"of Major Bknjamin Russell, the editor of the 
list Boston Centinel through the war. To show 
where he now is, we quote the veteran's toast 
given at a celebiation of the last 4th of July by 
the Whigs of Boston. 

'• By Major Benjamin Russell. The powerful Ainfr- 
icon M7nV Loc nmoth-e, whU its aUciidanl Cars, — tiie 
Conslilulion, Public Prosperity, l.ihcrly, K<|iial l.av.s, 
the Poor Man's Jiiglits,-And ilnh Man's Prh-i/r ::>:<: — 
May the progress of llieir passengers lo the liairJMm 
Polls be onward, forward, and slraightward, liaiu! ni 
Irand, slioulder to shoulder, and llicir journey he 
crowned with such success, as will induce ail other 
Locos to join company, and unite cordially in the >hcM, 
"Gotiliead, — for we iww /enow the Wliigs arc rizht." 

Major Russell now hnmrs that tiie V.'liigs are 
right": he scents the black cockade of General 



chair. . 

« Our country, then prosperous, has been giievoiisltj 
oppressed bv ruinous eominercial restrictions, which 
for many y'ears liave been wanlonlij imposed by the 
tfoverninent of the United States ; and its measure^ f 
vtipr'ij is now filed up by a declaration o( war agai 
Gre<il Britain, — a war impolitic, umucessary, and un- 

" in this awful state of things, it is the urgent duty of 
the freeiuc:! of Massachusetts to consult together. I'his 
dulv has hect-ine the more inftperious by llie condition 
of the government of this commonwealth, (Massai-hu- 
setts ) of which one branch (the Senate) is in the hands 
of usrrp(;rs dei-uted to the iniqmtons sijstem of the iia- 
liona! "•'j\ crnmcnt, (James Madison.) 

" Our common interests, liberties, and safety are now 
(1812) mora injured, opposed, and endangered, by tlie 
doino-s ofmir own national governmeiit, than they ii^ere 
when, in 177.5, we took up ann^ to protect and defend 
them 'against the measures ol' the I'.rilish governnieiil." 

Mr. Saltonstall, v;ho adopted this abuse of Jef- 



ferson and Madison, July 21, 1812, at the Essex "j^'T^rrigo,! [ Then the Whigs were right when, 
Junto convention, is now held tip as a JeJJ<rsvn ^^^-^^^^ Major Russell, who was a member of the 



Democrat, (Heaven save the mark !) and is one of 
the -rreat Whig executive committee who are go- 
in-J- ^" to restore the days of our patriot Presi- 
dent." What Presidents .' 

The Senate of Massachusetts, in 131:?, which 
Leverett Saltonstall denounced as " usurpers dc 



House during the war, they voted ibr all the 
measures of the Hartford Convention. The .Ma- 
jor has not changed. He has the virtue and 
honesty to avow his ancient Federalism. At the 
polls, at the last election, he said, '• 1 have always 
been a Federalist, and am now a Whig, which is 



VOttd to the iniijuitous system of the natioriid gov- ^j^^ ^^^^^^ thino-." ' He was a Whig, then, wlu-n he 




the clerk, was turned out the ne.xt year, when the 
Federalists got the power. 

J^Ir. Saltonstall was a jirominent federal mem- 
ber of the iMassachusetls House in Id 14, '13, and 
'l(j. The journals will show where lie then was. 



xcotild btfor the happiness of a\\ sections." 

[Fidin llie Centinel of June iG, 1SI3.] 
" The events of (his most abotuinahle war make a 
very melancholy impression on all w ho arc not piciinia- 
■ ■ ■ ' Besides the horrid 



j. llie journals win snow "'— - ............ ^j, |,„^.,c,ted in its perpetuation, liesules tlie l.orr.a 

October i:Uh, lril4, Mr. Saltonstall was ]) aeed p,,',,^;,,,, ^,- ,n„„.,„ blood, the monthly expenses of the 
accAnid on the commiltee to report upon the llart- ^,^^ .^^^ ^j^ millions." 

' [June30lh.] 

" The sailors begin to find out that the war is carried 
on lo protect /o/v?i'Ji seamen on board our vessels, and 
lo take the bread out oftlieir mouths." 

[A remarkable identity with the attempt of Mr. 
John Davis to pervert the speech of Senator Bu- 
chanan into an attempt to destroy the wages of 
labor.] 

[Centinel of June 28, 1813.] 

" It is not conceived thai any future varal encounter, 

should we prove successful, can be of more consequence 

t„ ihe country, than a race gained by the horse 1 ele- 

bred in Jersey, would be over the horse Sweet- 



ford Convention: William Sullivan was chair- 
man; Mr. Saltonstall was the prominent mover in 
the committee. 

October 15, Mr. Saltonstall debated through the 
day in support of the convention. 
[B\tract from the Boston Centinel of October l.'>, 18U.] 

"The fifth resolution (calling die Hartford Conven- 
tion) was debated through the day. It was supported 
by Nb'ssrs. Knapp, Milliard, Longfellow, Soil.oishdl, 
Itubbar.l, and others. It was opt>osed by Messrs. 
Webb, (Ireen, Wordiingtcm, Aiken, Klhs, ami Lincoln. 
The debate was able and spirited. Veas 2li0, nays HI).' 

Of the above who supported the convention, 



.h"l:;llt;L:!",,.r•r^ ,ir''o;'',i;:::i 3ri:;or.,nS.;=/o::;,;;^,»n,,.„.^^^ 



Deiiiorrats. 

January 27, 1815, Tieverett Saltonstnll voted to 
approve the doings of the Hartfortl Convention, 
and lo ai)point three cominissioners to apply to the 
United States government for the separation of 
Massachusetts from the States, in the defence of 
her territory. 



■ iiurnose oi iMip.iiiiiig mi- .-.•■•.•■p.— — — • - ^.' 

It would be nlinosl as reasonable lo expect some (-.ulli- 
ver to swim over the British Channel, and bring H out 
of Plymouth in his fingers." 

IKrom Ihe Ccnlinel of March 30. 181G. -Extract from the 
"^ I'fderal Addret^s to the People.) 

" The mali'rnanl blasts oi Democracy have swept over 



us like a pestilence. Why sl.ould we vote for he Jejfer- 
sons the Mudiso,,^; the Monroes, aud iheir inocicrn satol- 
liies' who exlun^tcd our resources, nd„ed ourcommercj, 
and c/if/W ihe hie-blood of oar prospenlij by A W ICK- 
ED \V \R 10 gralilV a foreign niousler. Come lor- 
ward, ihcn, and bkand with infamy the prokh- 

GATE RlNliLEAUKRS OF DEMOCRACY. 

After the election of Governor Brooks over 
Saimiel Dexter, the Centiiiel of April 10 ex- 
claimed — 

'^ Dcnocntc'i is like the dump-footed cabbage. It 
sproLiu ill the wcl and shade, but uhcii the sun oj J'cd- 
endism .-hiiics. il decays and putrejtf.s." 

'• Mr. JeiVersoii, about this time, is repealing Ins ex- 
clamalioii, • The devil is still in Massachusetts!' 

Here is one of your modern Wliigs of" the Jef- 
fersi.ri school," and he says he knuicii the Whigs are 
j-i.i-.'.i in supporting Harrison. 

"vVe niiolit oive more full lengths of prominent 
H-.L-rison Jtandard-bearers of the blue-light school, 
but IhoY are so numerous we must group thorn. 
Of t!ie.se men, as above described by themselves, 
who wiil not say, 

•' Thev are wliere they ever have been and ever 
ni?a:i to be," — Federalists .' 

T'lS CONTEST BETWEEN JOHN 
ALJAMS AND THOMAS JEFFER- 
SON IN 1804. 



Where were the supporters of Harrison then .•" 
The Federalists of Massachusetts, then in 
power, were so eager to defeat Jetferson, that 
they violently changed the mode of choosing 
electors from districts to a general ticket. This 
roused the Republicans, and the whole electoral 
t'cket was carried by the people for Jefferson, by 
a majority of 3,5:53. It was the largest vote that 
h-id ever been given in Massachusetts, tlien in- 
cluding Maine. • ,. ^ , r>. 

Majir Be"JA'.un- Russet.i., editor of the Cen- 
tmol, tlie Federal organ, said — 

'• The state of our national affairs, and the activity of 
the partisans on'bolh sides, has given an exlraonhiiiiry 
aclSvity to the election; and in no instance, since the 
existence of the Slate, will be found so great a number 
of votes <^iven in. It has been, emphatic id bj, a struggle 
whether "^Massachusetts would consent to become a 
Colomj of Virsiiiia, or a free and independent Stale." 
At thit period, the supporters of Jefferson 
called their party llvpiihliran ; but they were 
universally nicknamed, by the Federalists, Demo- 
crats, as a term of reproach. The Centinel thus 
announced the result of the choice of the Jeifer- 
son electoral ticket : — 

" The wliole number of voles wa% 55,000. The 
hi-'he-^t on the Democa'ic list had 29,310 voles. The 
lowest on tlie Ftd^ral ticket, 25. 120. Tlie general 
result mav be thus slated: For the Federal ticket, 
25.777 ; for the Dcmorralir ticket, 29,310 ; odds, 3,533." 
The f illowing extracts from the Boston Cen- 
tinel of that day' will show the lines between the 
two parties, aud the bitterness of the then Massa- 
chusetts Federalists (now Whigs) against Jeffer- 
son Deino'iracy and Virginia : — 

'• If IMassachusetts is doomed to liecomc a satellite 
of Virsjiiiia. no blame can rest on SuHolk." 

"Tlie result of the electoral choice in this State (for 
Jefferson) will not mnlerially lessen the faith of any 
genuine Federalist in the ultiinalc triumph of the prin- 
ciples of the Constitution as administered by Washing- 
ton and Adams. 

' 'Tis not in mortals to command success ; 
They can deserve it.' " 
Before the election, the Centinel called for a 
rally of its party, under the name of "the true 
RepiihJlcan Federalists from 1788 to 1804." 

Of the Democratic electors chosen in Massa- 



chusetts, it said, " They are all pledged to vote for 
Jeflerson and Clinton," and added — 

"The iphile Virginians of the Norlli dare no more 
deviate tiom their piocige to vote for JelVrrMm ihan the 
black Virginians dare disobey the orders ol their 
drivers." 

Again, the Centinel said — 

"The Democrats continue to profane the revered 
name of Washington, by opposing it to that ot^ John 
Adams, and connecting il wilh that of JeJj'erso--i." 

The same paper gives a list of inenibers of 
Congress elected, and says, '• These in italics are 
Dcviorruts.^' 

Alden Bradford, the Federal historian of 
Massachusetts, says of the success of the Jeffer- 
son electoral ticket, in 1804 — 

"The Democratic partij triumphed, much to the 
disappoiutnicnt and mortification of the Federalists." 

When Sullivan was elected Governor, the 
same writer says — 

"For the first lime after the Federal Government 
was established, all branches of the Government in 
JMassachusctts, in 1807, were Democratic, and again in 
isiOand 11." 

This is pretty conclusive as to what was meant 
by Federalist and Di.mocrat in those days. Let 
us see, then, where the leaders are now. ftlr. 
Alden Bradford is now a very stienuous Harrison 
man. He was Governor Strong's secretary in 
the war. 

In 1804, Massachusetts, including Maine, gave 
19 electoral votes. 

Where were tlie men who were identified in 
that contest between Adams and Jefti-rson, thirty- 
six years ago? and where are the survivors no70? 
C»f the Democratic ticket of electors, headed 
by .James SaUivan and ElbrUlge Gerry, not one 
is living. Like the immortal signers of the 
Declaration, all have gone to llieir long homes. 

Of the Federal John Adams ticket, headed by 
David Cobb ftlie avowed wonarckist of the reign 
of terror) and Oliver Wendell, but two are known 
to be now livins, viz. I-'benkzer Mattoon, of 
Amherst, and Samuel S. VVii.de, of Hallowell. 
Where are these men now? and where have they 
always been.' . 

It was esnltingly announced, in the Whig 
papers, that, at the celebration of tho last 4th 
of July in Barre, where Daniel Webster was the 
Whig orator, the veteran General Kbenezcr Mat- 
toou^a. Revolutionary soldier, was present, and 
gave his voice in favor of Harrison ! 

And who is Ebenezer Mattoon, whom the 
Whigs so exultingly parade in their Log Cabin 
processions ? 

He is the same vimi who, in 1804, was run as a 
John Adams elector again.st Thomas Jefferson, 
and was defeated by the Democrats of Massa- 
chusetts. 

He is the very smne man who, in lcl],wa8 
removed from the olfiee of Sheriff of Hampshire 
by Governor Gerry, afterwards Vice President 
with James Madison. He was then taken up by 
the Federalists, and elected a member of the 
Letrislature. 

And, further, this General Mattoon, whos«. 
support of Harrison is exultingly proclaimed by 
the =' Harrison Democrats,'' as they style them- 
selves, was a I-'ederal member of the Massachu- 
setts Legislature in 1812, and rated far all tlu 
Hartford Convention measures, and signed the 
violent protest to Congress denouncing James 
Madison's war. 

In 1814, he was appointed one of Governor 
Strong's prnrc Major (ienerals, lo prevent tlie 
Massachusetts troops doing any fighting ! 



Such was and is tliis '■^Harrison Dcmocrtit," 
General Mattoon, a John Adams eleetor in 1HI4, 
a Hartford Convention Fe^Jsiralist in J81'2, a 
"peace party " General in lb]4, wid a hard cider 
Whig in J840. Verily, he is " where he ever has 
been and ever means to be." 

Tlie otiier survivor of the John Adams electoral 
ticket of Jc-^04 is Hon. Sa.muel S. Wilde. We 
speak only of his political life. As ^ man and a 
Judge, he is learned and venerable. Wiiere has 
he been? In 1814, he was one of Governor 
Caleb Strong's Council, and sanctioned the re- 
fusal of that enemy of the Union to call out the 
militia as required by the President. 

The 18th of October, 1814, he was cliosen 
a member of the Har/ford Convention, and sat in 
secret conclave in that treasonable council. 

He was subsequently appointed a Judge of the 
Supreme Court of Massachusetts by Governor 
Strong, and in 1811) was chosen, by the Federal 
Legislature of that State, to vote against Monroe 
for President, and for Kiifiis King, the very man 
who proposed, on the floor of Congress, to furnish 
James Madison with a halter ! 

He is now a Judge of the Massachusetts 
Supreme Court, and a Whig, or " Harrison Demo- 
crat" — one of Mr. \Vebster's associates under 
"the significant banner!" He, too, is "where 
he ever has been and ever nieans to be." 

TiTis was the beginning of the two parties. 
Federal a,nd Democratic. Let us look a little 
farther. 

The War of 1812, and the Hartforu Con- 
vention OK 1814, were decisive tests of the two 
parties. How many who bore up tlie standard 
of rebellion in those days are now .-nlisted with 
Daniel Webster, John Davis, and their associates, 
in making General Harrison their " standard- 
bearer ! " 

June 10, 1813, a majority of the Committee 
of Foreign Ptelations in tlie House, in Congress, 
to whom Mr. Madison's message was referred, 
reported a manifesto as the basis of a declaration 
of war. 

The men who made that report were John C. 
Calhoun, of South Carolina, Felix Guundy, 
of Tennessee, EnF.NKZER Seavek, of Massa- 
chu.setts, John Sinilic, of Pennsylvania, John A. 
Harper, of New Hampshire, and Joseph Desha, 
of Kentflcky. 

The three f^rst named still survive. Need we 
ask where arc they? Two of them are distin- 
guished Senators, supjjorting the Democratic 
Administration of Martin Van Buren. The third 
resides in Roxbury, Massachusetts, e.vcluded 
from public life by Federal malignity, ever since 
he voted for the war, but uniformly Democratic. 
At the recent celebration of the 4th of July, 
he wrote a sound Democratic letter to the Demo- 
crats of Medfii'ld, full of the ])ure doctiine. 

Wi/.i.iAM Si'i.i.ivAN, of lloston, auotiier of Mr. 
Webster's associates, who died within a year, in 
the full faith of British Whiggery, (and who, 
were he now living, would rally around liie 
Federal standard-bearer, G(;n<'ral Harrison,) held 
up ihi'sc men to scorn, in his Familiar Letters, 
publish<-d in 18^54. 

Mr. Sullivan was the a, n hti ssnilor oi' the Hart- 
ford Convention, sent to VVasliino;ti)n in |HI4, to 
demand of I'residcnl Madison liie separation of 
New iMigland from the Union, in earryintf on 
the war. He was an active partisan Whig, to 
the time of bis decease, and noin^ better under- 
stood till" n)otto of that part}', borne on its signili- 
cant banner at Baltimore, 

" We arc ichcrc loc tvcr hacc been and ever mean 
te be." 



Mr. Sullivan thug ideniifies the Federalists of 
181:^ and the Whigs of 1834. He says — 

"■ VVlicu iMr. Jladison came to ihe Presideiii-v, the 
oppoiiejil party were llie Federalists. The oi^pouci-j 
parly at this day (1834) are citizens knoicn />i/ som,. 
oilier name, biU they are men of the .same pkin 
cifi.es." — Familiar Letters, p. 282. . 

Again, he says, (p. 3G6,) in mourning over the 
disbanding of tlie Federal party by tlie second 
election of Jefferson — ' ^ 

"Tlie name (Federalist) became so odious that it 
was abandoned. It ouglit ever to have been the most 
hoiioruble that any citizen could assume." 

In this we may see a shadowing forth of the 
second election of Van Buren, and the fate tiiat 
awaits the various names of -'Harrison Demo- 
crats," '-Log Cabin Whigs," and '-Hard Cider 
Kej)ublicans." 

At that period the Federalists were exulting in 
the blind hope of deli^ating Mr. Van Buren s lirst 
election, just as they are now of preventing his 
second choice by the people. Mr. Sullivan tallied 
then, just as the hard cider boasters do now. I'eax 
him. 

"Are the people of the United Slates so Tar gone in 
despotism that they must submit ? or can they in ai;y way 
wrest their personal freedom, tlieir constitution, tiiiMr 
honorable lame, the last hope ol cjvil liberty, Imm ibo 
grasp of usurpers ? 

■' I'iiey have a formidable adversary' to conlcnd wiih. 
There is the President, (Andrew Jackson ) wnli a head 
and heart not better than 21wmas JeJ/'erfon, but Irced 
from the inconvenience of that gentleman's ccnsiiiiun.iial 
timidity," &c. 

■' But diere are encouraging indications of lalo. 
There is a hope that the real sovereigns of the land are 
opening their eyes and their ears to realities. The day 
is near at hand when the people can save theniseives 
and their Constitution, at its last gasp." 

" liut that which is astonishing and ludicrous is, tiiat 
thi.^ armtj of patriots [the otlicc-holders, &c.] announce 
and maintain thai the people know, understand, and 
approve of all their doings ! " 

" There is not the least doubt that a large majorily 
of the American jieople are disgusted aud astonished by 
the usurpations of Andrew Jackson." 

Judge Hopkinson, of Pennsylvania, aiioiher 
veteran Federalist and modern Whig, who is now 
associated with Mr. Webster in supporting the 
Federal -'standard-bearer,'' exultingly exclaimed, 
in the I'ennsylvania Convention, Dec. 23, 1837, 
when the Bank suspensions had given new hojies 
to the opposition — 

" Nolwilhstanding all the calumnies that have been 
uttered against the Federal party, yet they are always 
at their post in the hour of danger. Their principle's 
are always iiivokcd to rescue the country from difli- 
cullit;s it "is phriiged in by the rashness of their oppo- 
nents. Thus in times of dijji cully they triumph, and 
THEV are now again "co.ming into I'owER. 1 sec 
some honest faces present who arc not ashamed io avow 
themsilres Federalists." 

Such is the identity of the old " Federal Re- 
pubiiean," and the new '- Whig Republican," or 
'• Deiuoeratic Whig"' parly, lint let us return to the 
war a:id the Hartford Convention, and see where 
the jircsi-nt associates of Mr. Webster, in holding 
up their '•standard-bearer" Harrison, ihe/i were. 

The war was d.cland June ]8, 1812. We all 
know whfie Daniki. Wkhstfr was then, and his 
motto says, "1 am when- 1 ever have been and 
ever mean to be." 

How was the declaration received in Massa- 
chusetts, and where are the men now ? 

Hon. Samuf.i. Pitnam, of Salem, then a mem- 
ber of the Massanhusells llouse, offend a resolve, 
(June 2, 1812, before war was deelired.) depre- 
cating the measure, and reported. a slioug Memo- 



rial to Congress against it, whicli passed, 4viG to 
249. The Memorial was disclaiiiied by tiie Re- 
publicans of that day, as humiliating to us, and 
meanly submissive to Great Britain. 

Of'tli'Me who voted/or this Federal protest, we 
have ascertained that thirtij-ninc are now living, 
and of lliese all but one man, are active, decided 
Whigs, associates of Mr. Webster in supporting 
Harrison, as the " standard-bearer " of Federalism ! 

We \vill give the names of the most prominent. 

Samuel. Putnam, of Boston, now a Judge of the 
Supreme Court, appointed by Gov. Strong in li?14. 

David lyUder, now the Treasurer of the Com- 
nionwealtli, elected by Wliigs. 

Joniithun Jluniuwell, an e.v-Senator of Suffolk, 
and now a modern Whig. 

Benjamin Kusseil, the old editor of the Federal 
Centinel, and a toaster of Harrison at the last 
4th of July dinner in South Boston. Visited the 
British fleet <tS Boston in the war, and received 
John Bell in Funeuil Hall in 1837. 

Uenjuiuin ]Vltitnnin, of Bjston, an ex-Judge of 
the I'olice Court, and a modern Whig. 

I.saac P. Davis, a present Whig member of the 
House from Boston, signed the Whig protest 
against Governor Morton's Address. 

Charles Jiicl;son, an e.\-Judge of the Supreme 
Court, appointed by Governor Strong, concurred 
in the opinion of the Court sustaining Strong in 
refusing to call out the militia in the war, and in 
1^"j3 was chosen a Whig elector against Mr. 
Van Buren, for Webster or Harrison, against the 
patriotic Jackson. 

WiLiam H. Sumner, of Pioxbury, ex- Adjutant- 
General, a prominent partisan of Log Cabins, and 
an extensive speculator in lands. 

Daniel Messinger, of Boston, ex-member of 
the Legislature, and an active British Whig, and 
a Vice President of the Washington Benevolent 
Society in 1814. 

Lynde Walter, (father of the Editor of the 
Transcript, a Whig paper,) a Justice of the Peace. 

Leiiiuct Shaic, Chief Justice of the Supreme 
Court. Decided Whig. 

James Savage, Whig member of Governor 
Everett's Council, Suifolk ex-Senator, present 
Whig member of the House, a signer of the pro- 
test against Governor Morton, and principal in 
contriving to '^nicely count" the people out of his 
election ! 

Joseph Tihlen, President of the Massachusetts 
Life Insurance Company, a great monopoly cor- 
poration. Active Whig. 

Dudley L. Pickmnn, of Salem, brother-in-l.iw 
of Mr. Saltonstall, Whig member of the L(>gisla- 
turo in ]8.'54, and father-in-law of Richard S. Fny, 
who wrote the infamous Circular to the Demo- 
cratic v.'orkmen in the Sandwich Glass Company. 

John' Pickering, (son of Timothy Pickering.) 
and now Whig City Solicitor of Boston. 

Thomas Greenleaf, of Quincy, a modern Whig 
liard cider Harrisonite. 

Mijiot Titaijer, of Braintree, Whig member of 
the Legislature, Harrison runner, and getter up 
of hard cider carousals. Signed the Federal 
Whig protest against the admirable Address of 
Governor Morton. How this modern Whig stood 
in the v>'ar, will best be shown by the following 
pithy extract from the old Republican Patriot and 
Chronicle, which we hope to quote again, next 
November, when a true Democrat shall be cliosen 
in place of this " headlong Federalist." 

[From the Chronicle of M.iy ]3, \.-n.] 

"In Braintree, a Republican Representative has 
been choson, by a very handsome majority, in the 
place of MiNOT Thayer, a thorough-going,' headlong 
Federalist." 



He, too, is " where he ever has been and ever 
means to be." 

Barnnhas Hedge, of Plymouth, a prominent 
Whig, just deceastjd. 

J\iihum Mitchell, Stf^te Treasurer and Senator 
under Governor Strong, and a member of his 
Council; a Federal Judge, and now a Whig 
member of the legislature from Boston ; signed 
the protest against Governor Morton. 

William Baylies, of Bridgewater, ex-member of 
Congress, I'rom the district now represented by 
the talented Henry Williams; voted against the 
removal of the deposits. Mr. Baylies tried once 
to be a Jackson man, but it was in vain he washed 
his old Federalism and cried, " Out, danmed spot." 
He went back again, and is now very active in 
the Log Cabin campaign; promised, it is said, to 
be elected TJ. S. Senator in place of John Davis, 
if he gets in Governor. 

Samuel Crocker, of Taunton, holding a State 
office under Governor Everett, and member of a 
corporation which threatens to turn out all opera 
tives that won't vote for Harrison. 

Horatio Leonard, of Raynham, now the Whig 
Sheriff of Bristol county, an active Whig partisan. 

James CroweU, of Yarmouth, holding a State 
office, and an active Federal agent, now and for- 
ever, of Mr. John Reed, the life member of Con- 
gress. 

Josejih Bdicman, of Nev; Braintree, a Whig ex 
Counsellor of Governor Lincoln in ld33. 

Edmund Dwight, now of Boston, Whig mem- 
ber of the Senate, and Director in the Western 
Railroad. 

Ebvnczcr MattiKin, of Amherst, recently exhibit- 
ed, at a Log Cabin gathering in Hampshire, as a 
Revolutionary veteran, in favor of the hero of 
Tippecanoe. Described before as a John Adams 
elector. His son, Ebenezer Mattoon, Jr., is ono 
of the signers of the protest against Governor 
Morton. 

E/ihraim Hastings, of Heath, an ex-Whig 
Senator, and the defeated Harrison candidate in 
Franklin county, at the last election. 

Thomas Lovi'lcy^ of Hawley, a Federal Senator 
in 18'.;4, and voted against Seth Spragiie's motion 
to expunge the infamous resolution of J. Quincy," 
passed in 181o, that it was immoral and irreligious 
to rejoice at the victories of our country ! Also 
deletratc to a Whig convention that nominated 
Webster or Harrison in 1836, pledged to either oc 
both. Mr. Longley was the man who attemptetl 
to carry the Antimasons of Massachusetts for 
Harrison or Webster, and ftiled in his plot. He 
was a Harrison elector in 183(>. 

There are others of lesser note, but these will 
Bulnce as a sample of the whole. 

Not a man who signed this anti-war protest, 
except one, is now living, who ever voted any 
thing but the modern W'hig ticket. How well 
they fulfil the meaning of the motto of " the sig- 
nificant banner " of the Boston Delegation at 
Baltimore, ^ 

" We are where 2cc ever hare been and ever mean \ 
to he!" ' 

Of the protest against the war, (in Congress,) 
which these men approved, Wii. mam Sti.i-iv.vN, 
the .Embassador of the rebel Hartford Convention, 
says in Ills Familiar Letters, p. 318, it is much su- 
perior to the Declaration of Indrprudenre ! This 
protest was drawn up by Josiah Quincy. The ■ 
snrvivimf Massachusetts members of Congress, 
whri signed it, are Josiah Qiilncy, of Cambridge, 
and J.,ai)an Wheaton, of Norton, Whigs. It was 
also signed by Mr. Heed, father of John Heed, 
now Whig member of Congress, who voted against 
every measure to Bustain the country during the 



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war, and by Thomas Wilson, a brother of General 
James Wilson, of New Hampshire, the Federal 
jliiieraiit lecturer in Massacliusetts. 

This was jusi before the war. Now let us go 
into the war. 

WHO WERE THE MEN THAT OP- 
P0.SJ:D the WAR! WHERE ARE 
THE SURVIVOR.S NOW J 

Governor Strong sent a message to the Massa- 
cliusctts Legislature, June'23d, \ti\2, annouticimr 
and denouncing tlie war. It was referred to a 
committee. The only survivor of that eommit- 
tee is Charles Jackson, of iioston,tiie Webster 
and Harrison elector in l.S:?2. He reported an 
Address to the people, bitterly denouncing" Mad- 
ison's war," which passed, ICio to 56. 

A coimniltee was forthwith ajjpointed to report 
a fast "on account of the unexpected and calam- 
itous declaration of war." 

The only survivor of that committee is Ed- 
mund Dwiii/it, now a Whig Seii:itor for WuHolk. 

Skth Si'KAGUF., of Duxbury, (now a veteran 
Democrat, who sent a letter in support of tlie In- 
dependent Treasury to the Democratic celebra- 
tion of the last 4th of July in that place, and was 
the Democratic candidate for Senator last fall.) 
was a State Senator in lfc'l3. and, on his motion, 
Jan. 2t>, tiie Senate, then Democratic, (with Mar- 
cus Morton, now Governor, its clerk,) voted to 
build, provision and equip a 74 ^un siiip, to be 
called the Massachusetts, and present it to the 
United States Govi'rnment, to be employed by 
President Madison, during the war. 

This order was reported ii<riilvst in the House, 
by Charles JacLsun, (the ex-Judge and Harrison 
elector above named,) and defeated, 310 to 159. 

Of the 13 Senators who voted noiunst the above, 
there are still living, Solomon Stmnir. (a Judge.) 
Silas Hdlman, Daniel A. White, (a.ludije,) Joim 
Wells. Peter C. Brooks, and liarrisDU Gray Otis, 
all Whigs. 

MEETING IN FANEUIL HALL 
AGAINST THE WAR. 

July 15th, 1812, a great meeting was held in 
Faneuil Hall, which denounced the war, and vil- 
ified James Madison. The most prominent ac- 
tors in that meeting, were Daniki. Sargfant, 
Harrison Gi;av Oi is, and Josiah Qiini v. They 
are now living, two in Boston and one in Cam- 
bridge, and are zealously contributing to try to 
elect General Harrison. Two of them recently 
furnished means toward erecting the miserable 
log cabin on Charles Street, iu tlieir ward. 

Of Mr. Otis's i)iiilip|)ic against Madison, at the 
Faneuil Hall mec^ting, the Fe(i<-ral historian 
says, " Like Demosthenes rousing the Atlienians 
against Pliilip, his address awakened the citizens 
of Boston to a virtuous jealousy of the intrigues 
of France, and of those who are coojjcrating with 
her ruler to destroy the liberties of mankind." 

FEDERAL MEETING IN MIDDLE- 
SEX. 

July 15, IPjii, a meeting of Federalists in .Alid- 
dlesex county denoinnsed the war. Of the most 
l)rominent actors in that meeting, Jour are now 
living, and all ardent Wliigs, viz. 

Sam. S, p. Fav, .lodge of Probate, recently 
chairman of a great Whig meeting, and falliiT of 
R. S. Fay, autlior oi" lin' infamous Circular to tiie 
workingmen in the Sandwich CJlass Comi)any. 

NATiiANii;r. .AiisrrN, Agent of Warren Free 
Bridge, appointed i)y (lovernor Fverett; and ii<t\ 
Mr. JUplcij, now living in Concord, one of the 



political preachers against the government in the 
war, and a uniform P'edcralist. Isaac Fiske, Regis- 
ter of Probate. 

REBEL CONVENTION IN BOSTON. 

This was held August 6, 1812. Col. Sumner, 
now ex-Adjutant General Sumner, (as above,) 
was secretary. Among the delegates, those now 
living are, Charles Juekson, (as above ;) Artenias 
/rtf((/, just resigned as Chief Justice of the Court 
of Connnon Pleas ; iVUlium Parso7iJ!, son of Chief 
Justice Parsons, (an extreme Whig ;) ll'arren 
Dutton, an ex- Whig member of the Council ; and 
Benjamin Gorham , ex- Whig member of Conoress ; 
all now Harrisonites. 

Leverett Saltonstai.l, member of Congress, 
and one of the Whig Executive Committee for 
the Union, was also a delegate. 

* ■* 
WORCESTER CONVENTION AGAINST 
THE WAR. 

In August, 1812, a violent Federal Conventi-'n 
met in Worcester county. J'rancis Blake, the 
most rabid federalist and disunionist of tlie day, 
(not now living,) was at its head. He drew uji a 
declaration in caricature imitation of the Deela- 
ratioa of Independence, which the convention 
adopted. It was of a highly treasonable charac- 
ter, calling upon the people to withdraw from the 
government all voluntary aid. 

This convention was composed of SO members. 
Of these, 40' are known to be dead, 2U are ntit 
known to be living, probably dead, and the sur- 
viving tweiitij are ever}' one known to be Harrison 
Whigs. We ffive their names. 

Ehjah Burbank, of Worcester; Natha-.iiel P. 
Denny, of Leicester ; Nathaniel Chandler, of 
Petersham ; Rufus Bullock, of Koyalston, (,(us- 
tice ;) William Druiy, of Iloldyo, (Ju.stiee ;) 
Samuel Read, of Uxbndge, (Whig member of the 
Legislature, 1837;) Natlian Howe, of Shrews- 
bury, (Justice ;) Phili[) Delano, ol" New Brain- 
tree ; Solomon Stroi;g, (now a Judge of the 
Court of Common Pleas ;) ^Villiam CrawlV'rd, of 
Oakham, (County Commissioner;) Aaron Tufts, 
of Dudley, (Justice ;) James Draper, of Spencer; 
Aaron White, of Boylston ; Nathaniel Crocker 
and Braddock Livermore, of Paxton; Daniel 
TiMiiiey, (Justice.) Artemas liullard, and .Ifuia- 
th:iu Lelaiid, (Justice,) of Sutton ; Jonas Keiuiall, 
of J^eominster, (of tiie Quorum ;) and Salem 
Towne of Charlton, (Justice,) one of the committee 
to receive Mr. Jtdin Bell, at Worcester, in 1837. 

Joltn Daris, ot" Worcester, now the Harrison 
Fculeral (•.•uidid-ite for governor, was not a member 
oi'tiiat convention, being then at iSew Ha\en. 

WHO WERE THE A( TOUS IN THE 
IIAUTFiiMJD CO.NVE.NTION, AND 
WHERE ARE TtlEV ? 

In October, 1814, Caleb Strong, tlie British 
Governor of Massachusetts, called an extra ses- 
simi of the Legislature, and sent the ni a message, 
denouncing tlie war. 

On th(! fith of October, Mr. Loir.vl' Lyman, 
Maine, (deceased,) moved to raise a committee, 
from all tlii- N. England States, to go to Wash- 
ington, and compel James INIadison to rrsion ; for 
liavlng, "by the vrfariius plans of his ailiniiiis- 

tialioll, Rl'INKl) 'rHK COI NTRV I" 

'i'his old Tory threat of rebellion has since been 
copied by the Boston Atlas, in 1831, in calling for 
an army of '10,();i() men, to go to Washington, and 
compi'l the tyrant Jackson to restore the deposits 
— and by [lobert (iould, one of the Whig Com- 



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mittce of New York Merchants, in 1837, who 
declined being on a distress committee of fifty, 
but demanded 10,000 armed men, to force Mr. 
Van Buicn to rescind the specie circular and take 
broken bank bills. 

So uiiifurmly does Federalism, from the begin- 
ning till now, run in the same kennel of vaporing, 
bullying, and rebellion ! 

This Low motion, as the Chronicle and Patriot 
of tliat day called it, was the basis of the }Iartford 
Convention which was reported Oct. 13, 1814. 

THE HARTFORD CONVENTION 
ORIGINATED ABOLITION AS A 
MEANS OF DISUNIOiX. 

The 5th resolve was the test question of that 
measure, and to this we now call the attention of 
our Southern brethren, and the friends of the 
Union. It proves that old Tory Federalism was 
the fiither of Molitioiusin, to dissolve the Union, 
as well as of modern British Whiggery. 

The 5tli resolve, after providing lor delegates 
from the N. England States, to meet in Hartford, 
to redress grievances, and prepare for a separate 
defence, &,c., adds — 

" And also to take measures for procuring a conven- 
tion of delegates from all liie United Slates, in oi-dcr lo 
revise llie Constitution thereof, and more elfectually lo 
secure ilie support and allachmenl of all the people, by 
placing all upon the basis of/air reprcsenlalion." 

This secret design of the Hartford Convention 
to disturb the original compromise of the Consti- 
tution as to slave representation, has been studi- 
ou.-lv concealed, until it has been entirely for- 
gotten. 

We v.'ill now demonstrate, that the Southern 
and Western Whigs, who support Daniel Web- 
ster's "standard-bearer," in the person of Ilarri- 
s^n, are directly allied with the liarllbrd Conven- 
tion men, who were the first disturbers of the Con- 
stitutional Compromise, and that they called for 
disunion or abolition of the slave representation, 
during the war, precisely as the modern Aboli- 
tionists now do. 

Mr. Harrison Gray Otis, in his published de- 
fence of the Hartford Convention, affirms that its 
proceedings were more in conformity with the 
public sentiment of the Federalists of Massachu- 
setts than any measure which had been adopted 
by that State since the acceptance of the Federal 
Constitution. [Letter 3 to the editor of the Cen- 
tinel.] 

In another letter, (No. 9,) he says that one of 
the objects of that convention was " lo dinunish 
the rcjirpsfrdution of slavrs." 

And this amendment was sought, not in the 
mode provided by the Constitution, but by a con- 
vention of all the States, (not the people, but the 
Legislatures,) which was a direct measure of rev- 
olution. 

This is precisely what the extreme Abolitionists 
now contend for, — a dissolution of the Union, — 
or an amendment of the Constitution, by the 
force of a general convention, in order to give 
Congress power over slavery in the States. 

Mr. Daniel Webster, one of the " standard- 
licarer's" aids, in the Hairison canvass, fol- 
lowed up this prominent object of the Hartford 
Convention, in a report made by him to a meet- 
ing of Federalists in Faneuil Hall, in IdIG, in 
v/hich he reported resolutions declaring it the 
duty of Congress to abolish the transfer or sale of 
slaves from one State to another. 

This was cited, and made the basis of a report, 
in the Massachusetts Senate, in 1835, upon the 
petition of Judge Oliver B. Morris, the confiden- 



tial abolition correspondent of Mr. William B. 
Calhoun; and the same resolve recommended by 
Mr. Webster, was passed, for interdicting the 
transfer of slaves between the States. 

The report of the didegates of the Hartford 
Convention, was fully adopted by the Massachu- 
setts Legislature, Jan. 27, 1815, by a vote of 159 
to 48; Mr. Saltonstall in the afhrmative. 

That report atlirms, that, as soon as the new 
administration was established, under Jefferson, 
a fi.ved determination was perceived, of changing 
the former system, (Hamilton's,) which hud given 
lo the nation a prodigious impulse toward pros- 
perity. " Under the withering influence of this 
new system, the declension of the nation has been 
uniform and rapid." 

This everlasting cry of " ruin " would be 
enough, «f itself, to identify the old Federal and 
modern Whig party. it is their never-failing 
Shibboleth, insomuch that, during the last war, 
when a merchant of Philadelphia said to Timo- 
thy Pickering, that the country was abundant in 
resources to carry on the war, Mr. Pickering 
started in amazement, exclaiming, " Why, sir, J 
thought you were a Federalist ! " 

So it is n<nv. The New York Journal of Com- 
merce (a Wjiig press) insists that the country is 
prosperous, even with the Sub-Treasury, and all 
the Whig presses cry out against it, Locofocol 
Every man who talks of his country's prosperity, 
is set down by the Wliigs as a Locofoco. 

But to come back to tJie slave question. 

The Hartford Convention report, (p. 15.) after 
attributing all the evils in the world to Mr. Madi- 
son's administration, says — 

" But it is not conceivable that the obliquitj' of any 
administration could, in so short a period, have so 
ncarlv ronsumniated the work of national ruin, unless 
favored by defects in the (Constitution. To enumerate 
all the improvcincnls of which that instrument is sus- 
ceptible, is a task this convention has not thought proper 
lo assume." 

They then propose the indispensable amend- 
ments, and say — 

" The first amendment proposed, relates to the appor- 
tionment of Rt'presenladves among the slave-holding 
States. Tins cannot be claimed as a right. Those 
stales arc entitled lo the slave representation, by a, 
constitutional compact. It is tlierctbrc merely a sulyect 
of agreein<'nt, which should be conducted upon jjrinci- 
))les of mutual interest and accommodation, and upon 
which no sensibdity on either side should he permitted 
in e.riit. It has proved unjust and unequal in its 
OPERATION, and had this eticct been foreseen, the 

primle^e CERTAINLY WOULD NOT HAVE BKEN COM- 
CKDKU." 

In conformity to this recommendation, the 
Hartford Convention adopted, and the Federal 
Legislature of Massachusetts approved the follow- 
ing:— 

" Resolved, Tliat the following amendment of the 
Constitution of the United Slates be recommended to 
the Slates, lo be proposed by them f't)r adoption by the 
Slate Legislatures, and in such cases as may be ileemcd 
e.vpedieut, by a cnnvrnlion chosen by the people of 
cacii Slate. And it is further recommended tiiat the 
said States shall persevere in their efforts lo obtain 
such amendments, until the same shall be clTecled," 
y'u. : — 

" First. Representatives and direct ta.vcs shall he 
apportioned among the several Stales, according to 
their respective numliers of free persons, c.\cluding In- 
dians not la.\cd, and all other persons." 

This was, in effect, the first public agitation of 
the dissolution of the Union, growing out of the 
slave question. Surely, then, it becomes a matter 
of vital interest to the friends of Union and State 
Rights, and of non-interference with the slave 



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question in the States, to look to the "standard- 
bearer" under whom Mr. Webster invites them 
to enlist. Neither can he be trusted on the other 
side, for he is secretly pledged to both, and will 
therefore betray both. 

General Wilson, of New Hampshire, tells the 
people of Massachusetts, in his speeches through 
that State, 

" Thai General Harrison owes his noniiiiation to the 
Massachusetts Delegates to llie Harrisburg Convention, 
and that he is theretbre emphalkallij the Mussachuscils 
candklitU for the Presidency." 

Wr. Webster says, to the Alexandria Whigs, 
(in his own name and that of Mr. John Davis, 
the Massachusetts Whig candidate for Governor,) 

'•■ We have made William Henry Harrison the bearer 
of our standard."' 

Two, at least, of the Harrisburg Delegates 
from Massachusetts, who secured the nomin-ation 
of i-Iarrison, were the elders of the old school, 
viz. Hon. Samuel Hoar, one of the strongest ad- 
vocates of the Hartford Convention, and Hon. 
Nathaniel M. Davis, who was a member of the 
Legislature in 1814, and voted for il. 

IDENTITY OF THE H ARTFO RD AND 
HARiliSBURG CONVENTIONS. 

Hon. Leverett SalttustaJl, one of the W^hig Com- 
mittee engaged in '■ restoring ike ihnjs of the 
patriot Presidents!" voted for all the measures 
of the Hartlijrd Convention, upon slave repre- 
sentation; he has just made a labored defence of 
that convention in Congress, and has afhrmed 
that it was as innocent as the Harrisburg Con- 
vention. 

He says this truly, for both convetitions aimed 
at a sectional division of the country, and both 
struck at the rights of the Southern States ; the 
former boldly and openly, the latter covertly and 
cowardly. 

In Ic-U, the Southern and Western States up- 
held the country, in a most fearilil crisis, when 
every State at the North, except Vermont, was 
under the control of the British party. Abolition 
was then highly popular at the Nurtli, and there- 
fore the Hartford Convention seized upon it, as 
an adjunct to their desigtio of breaking down Vir- 
ginia and the ileimblicau Administration. 

The same men, under their new name of Whigs, 
have now "made William Henry Harrison the 
bearer of their standard," and, by his secret letters, 
through the agencies of such Northern Federal- 
ists as William li. Calhoun, Evans, Gates, and 
others, arc striving to secure the aid of the Abo- 
litionists against the South, to enable them to put 
down the Democratic Administration of Mr. Van 
Buren. 

1-et the SoutI) ponder well on these teachings 
of the history of th9 pa.st. Let the North never 
tru.st a man who, like General Harrison, "palters 
t7i a duiihle sense." 

WHO WERE THE HARTFORD CON- 
VENTION LEADERS, AND WHERE 
ARE THEY NOW I 

At his syieech at Alexandria, June II, l'^40, 
Daniel Webster, who ap])i)iiiteil d'eneral Harrison 
his " standard-bearer," exclaimed — 

" Fcllow-citizeus, we niusl not stop or falter in our 
opposition to the atlininL^lrutiun, till our lost pro.sprrilij 
is restored ! " 

When the Federal Massachusetts Legislature 
assembled to oppose the war, preliminary to the 
Hartford Conventio;^, Ucnjainin RiisscU excWitned 
in his Centinel — 



" AH the Branches contain majorities of the frienas 
of peace, and whatever can be done to restore their 
couiitnj io its LOST PROSPERITY, will be atlenipled." 
[Boston Centinel, May^li.] 

The Federal measure to restore lost prosperity, 
in 1814, was the Hartford Conventicm. The 
Whig measure, to do the same in 1840, is to re- 
store the lost influence of the Hartford Conven- 
tion men, by means of the Harrisburg Conven- 
tion, under Harrison and hard cider ! 

LIST OF SURVIVORS WHO VOTED 
FOR THE HARTFORD CONVEN- 
TION. 

In the Massachusetts Senate, October 8, 1814, 
Harrison Gray Otis reported the bill for the Hart- 
ford Convention, which was carried, 2^ to 12. Its 
principal advocates were Messrs. Otis, Quincy, 
and White, all now Whigs. Of those who voted 
for it, there are now living, 

Josiiih Quinri), President of Harvard College, 
Harrison Gray Otis, Thomas H. Perkins, and 
Daniel Sargeant, of Boston. 

Essex. — Samuel Putnam, a Judge of the Su- 
preme Court, appointed by Governor Strong; 
Daniel A. White, of Salem, Judge of I'robate and 
President of a Bank panic meeting, and also of 
the great Whig dinner, given to Daniel Web- 
ster in 1834, when tb.e decapitated fio^urc-htud of 
the Frigate Constitution was exhibited by Parker 
H. Pierce, then Chairman of the Boston Whig 
Committee of Safety, and subsequently the fu- 
gitive President of the Whig Commercial Bank. 
Caleb Foote, the furious VVhig Editor of the 
Salem Gazette, and an ex-member of Governor 

Everett's Council, is Judtre White's son-in- 

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law. 

Worcester. — Silas Holnian, of Bolton, holds a 
State office from a Whig Governor. 

Hampden and Frunklih. — Samuel Lailiro^, 
Samuel C. Allen. 

Bristol. — SanuiF.L Crocker, of Taunton, mem- 
ber of a great Whig Corporation, and an office- 
holder. 

Phjmovth. — Wii.KF.s Woop, Judge of Probate, 
and now nominated for H.vriiison Electok for 
Plymouth District, by the Wliig Convention, held 
at \Vorcesl«r, the 17th of June last — voted for 
and to approve the Hartford Convention, and to 
send Ambassadors to Washington. 

Judge Wood headed the Ir.ird cider procession, 
with canoes and cabin.-s, that marched from Mid- 
dleborough to Bridgewater, the 4lh of July last, to 
h(Mr Robert C. Winthrop, Esq., the Whig Speaker 
of the Massachusetts House of Representatives. 
Wilkes Wood was chosen a Federal Senator from 
Plymouth, m 1814, over Nathan Wilms, then of 
Rochester, who was a Republican Si'iiator for 
that county in 18i;5, with- Seth Sprague, and 
voted with him for his resolve to build a 74 gun 
ship, lor the use of the United States, to carry on 
the war, and against Josiah Quincy's resolution 
not to rejoice at our naval victories. He was 
("hairman of the Committee that reported that 
Marcus Morion was chosen Clerk of the Senate 
in 181:5. Mr, Willis, now of Berkshire, is the 
Democratic Candidate for Lieutenant-tiovernor, 
while Mr. Wood is a candidate for Harrison 
Elector ! 

Of the above 11 survivors, out of the 22 wjio 
voted for the Hartford Convention in the Senate, 
all but one are Whigs and Harrison men. Mr. 
Allen, of Franklin, is a decided Democrat, He 
was one of those whom Mr. Otis described as not 
exactly Federalists, but " the fifing si/uad." In 
his 8th letter, Mr. Otis speaks of" the Federalists," 



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(or persons composing the majority,) flir. he adds, 
there were among them a tew of tlie "fying 
squad" ill both llouses, in the session of L>14, 
when the convention was formed. Mr. Allen 
declined voting on the first motion for the. Hart- 
ford' Convention. 

Neither can we positively speak as to Mr. 
Lathrop, who has taken no part in politics for 
some time. All the rest are earnest supporters 
of Harrison. They are 
" Where they ever have heeii and ever mean to be." 

SURVIVING BIEMBERS OF THE 
HOUSE. 

It is a difficult task to obtain a full list from so 
numerous a body. In what^we have got, we 
have taken great ptiins, and carefully studied ac- 
curacy. If there is any error, it is inadvertent, 
and we beg it may be pointed out. 

In the Hou.se the yeas were 2(J0, nays JtO ; — for 
Maine, 41 yeas, 21 na3's ; fiar Massachusetts 
Proper, 219 yeas. 6'J nays. Tliose belonging to 
Massachusetts, who voted for the convention, 
iind are ascertained to be now living, are as fol- 
lows, ['.s accurately as we can learn. We attach 
the Whig odices they novv- hold. 

Boston. — Jonatlian Hunnevvcll, (an ex-Whig 
Senator.) Stephen Codnum, (of the Quorum,) Ben- 
jamin Russell, (a Justice, ex-Editor of tlie Boston 
Centinel, toaster of Harrison the last 4th of 
.(uiy, ox-me;nber of Governor Everett's Council, 
iS-c. &c.,) Benjamin Whitman, (ex-Judge of Po- 
lice under Governors Lincoln and Davis; of the 
Quirum.) William H. Sumner, (now of Rox- 
bury, ex-Adjutant-General, and Justice of the 
Qfj-iruai,) Benjamin Weld, (now of Maine,) Oli- 
ver Keating, of Chelsea, Daniel Messinger and 
Wiiliam Harris, (who were on the Committee that 
gave a pretended Mechanics' Dinner to Daniel 
Webster, Prentiss, of Missouri, and Menifee, of 
Kentucky, in Faneuil Hall, July, 1838; both 
have been menibers of the House,) George G. 
Lee, (formerly of the Essex Junto,) Lynde Wal- 
ter, (Justice Peace.) Lemuel Shaw, (Chief Jus- 
tice of Supreme Court, appointed by Governor 
Lincoln.) Thomas Barry, Richard Sullivan, (holds 
a State o'.tice,) Benjamin Gorliam, (ex-Whig mem- 
ber of Congress,) William Sturgis, (recently of] 
the Senate and House; made a speech in the 
10 cent rebellion in I\ineuil Hall, May, 1837; 
said to the enraged assembly that Amos Kendall 
would be eaten vp, if he was present.) 

Essex Countv. 

Salem. — Dudley L. Pickman, (member of 
House in 1634, voted to denounce Jackson for 
veto of the Bank.) Benjamin Hawkes, Elislia 
Mack, (Judge of Police Court.) John Glen Kinff, 
(of the Quorum,) and Lkverett Saltonstai.i,, 
(Whig member of Congress, of the Harrison Ex- 
ecutive Committee, defender of the (Hartford 
Convention) faith in Congress, restorer of patriot 
Presidents; described by John Quincy Adams as 
"just such a monarchist as Jonathan Jackson, 
one of the Essex Junto, was!" delegate to the 
" Rebel Convention," with Timothy Pickering, in 
]81'2; master of ceremonies to receive John Bell, 
when ho laid Tennessee at the feet of Webster, in 
1837, &c. &c.) 

[Mr. Saltonstall must still be a Federalist, or a 
very had man, for he says, " A Federalist turned 
Dejnocrat is the wor.st of all politicians."] 

Robert Emery, another Salem member, is now 
of Springfield. E. H. Derby is also living. 

Danvrrs. — Nathan Felton, Sylvester Oshorn. 

Ipswich. — Joseph Farley, (Justice of Peace.) 



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Becerly. — Robert Rantoul, Nathaniel Goodwin, 
(Ca^sliier of Plymouth Bank.) 

Gloucester. — James Appleton, Jonathan Kim- 
ball, (nou- of Salem.) 

Rowleij. — Thomas Gage,jr , (now senior; Whig 
meinber of the House in 1833, a Justice.) 

JWicbury. — Josiali Little. 

JS'ewburifjjort. — Jonathan Gage, (Justice of the 
Peace,) Isaac Adams, (now of Methuen,) Samuel 
Newman, (now of Andover.) 

Boxford. — Parker Spoftord. 

Andover. — Timothy Osgood. 

Hacerhill. — Dav'id Howe, (Justice.) 

MlDDLESE.\ CoUiNTy. 

C'harlestown — Joseph Hurd, (now of Stone- 
ham,) John Soley, (of the Quorum.) 

Cambridge. — William Hilliard, (member of 
the House in 1833, recently deceased.) Ptoyal 
ISrakepeace, (Stock Agent of the Canton Co. at 
Baltimore.) 

Medford. — Dndley Hall, (of the Quorum.) 

Weston. — Isaac Fiske, (Register of Probate.) 

Framingham. — Abner Wheeler, (of the Quo- 
rum, County Commissioner, and a Whig candi- 
date for Senator.) 

Reading.- Timothy Wakefield, (Justice of the 
Peace.) 

Grcton. — Luther Lawrence, (very recently de- 
ceased ; Whig Mayor of Lowell.) 

Norfolk County. 
Qui?icij. — Thomas Greenleaf, (Secretary of the 
Federal Convention that nominated John'Brooks 
for Governor, in lS-J-:>, and now a Justice for the 
Commonwealth. He is the only survivor of the 
seven out of all Kepublican Norfolk, who voted for 
the Hartford Convention.) 

Plymouth County. 
Plymouth. — Barnabas Hedge, (just deceased, a 
Justice.) Benjamin Bramhall, (now of Quincy,) 
Nath.4n1£l M. Davis, (now a Whig Counsellor, 
elected by a Whig Legislature to advise Governor 
i\Iorton, member of the Harrisburg Convention.) 

Bristol County. 

Taunton. — Jonathan Ingalls. 

Baynham. — John Gilmore, (Justice Peace.) 

Morton. — Isaac Hodges. 

■Somerset. — David Anthony, (Justice.) 

Berkley. — Apollos Toby, (now of New Bedford, 
a Justice of the Quorum.) 

7Vo(/, (now Fall River.) — Joseph E. Reed, (a 
big Whig, member of Bristol County Whig 
Convention.) 

Westpnrt. — Abner Brownell, (of the Quorum.) 

J^'exo Bedford. — Jireh Swift, (then Juii.,) J. 
Williams. 

Barnstablk Cou.n'tv. 

Yarmouth. — James Crovvell, (Justtce and Com- 
missioner.) 

Welljleet. Josiali Whitman, (Justice and ex- 
Postmaster, a Whig.) 

[Nantucket a.nd Ddkes County sent no 
member.] 

Worcester County. 

Spencer. — James Draper. 

('abridge. — Daniel Carpenter, Samuel Read, 
(of the Legislature in 1837.) 

Grafton. — Jonathan Wheelef. 

fjanca.^tcr. — William Cleaveland. 

Bolton. — Stephen P. Gardner, (of the Quorum.) 

Sterling. — Samuel Sawyer, Thomas PI. Blood. 

Paxton. — David Davis, (then Jun.) 

Kcw Brtkinlree. — Joseph Bowman, (then Jun., 
member of John Davis's Council in 1834,) Justice. 



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Hampshire CouNxr. 
Soiitlimnpton. — As-a.ht:l Birge, (Justice.) 
MUldifJieid. — iohn Dixon, (Justice.) 
Giuuh:i. — David Smith, (Justice.) 
Jiiiilia'>t. — '6\M<ion. Strong, (Justice,) Noah 



the Jefferson school ! Add to these other survivors 
who supported legislative measures to get up or 
approve that coiiveution, 17 in number, and the 
prominent men in tlic primary conventions, still 
living, 18 in number; and it gives an aggregate 



y^«/u.-.t -Simeon f^^J{^^^:Z o^o::^^:udraandf:>■U,sevcun.enoi^^^^o6i, 
Webster, (of d.ct.oiiury tame, an a dent \^hs,n .^^ Mass.cliusetts, who are principal 



Connecticut.) [Not one JYmj in all Hampshac] 
Hampues County. 

LonT meadow. — Calvin Buit. 

PaUitcr. — Alpheus Converse. 

B tinford. — Alanson Knox. 

Ckeiter. — Asahel Wright. 

Frakkli.v Cockty. 

Sfec?i«rH«.— William Wells, (Justice.) 

HtfM/ci/.— Thomas Longley, (before described.) 

Ashjield. — Enos Smith, (jiow of Granby.) 
Berkshire County. 

Lanrshorou^h. — Henry Hubbard, (Counsellor 
of Governor Lincoln in lc^:3;3, Whig member of the 
House, 1836, and of tlie Quorum.) 

[Jj' Elirlily-Jivc members of th 
voted for^the H.irtfoid Convention 
(except three just deceased ;) and of 



nearly all in iVlass:icliusetts, wlio are principal 
advisers and actors in the eitorts to restore the 
days of the black cocliade, and in the language of 
their expounder, Mr. Webster, " liace made IVil- 
liam 11. llairinon the bearer oft/tdr standard! " 

Who can doubt tiie cliaracter of that flag, when 
these are the men wlio rally under it ? Wlio can 
deny the aptness of tiie mo'tto on "the significant 
banner .' " 

" /Fc are where, we ever have been and ever 
mean to be ! " 

Trace it still farther. Mr. Otis, in his defence 
of that convention, (whlcli Mr. Saltonstall, as one 
of tiie Harrison Executive Committee, declares 
was a patriotic body,) remarks that tlie actors in 
that convention have continued to receive in Mas- 



TT^nc^ who sachusetts ample testimonials of public coniidence. 

„ "f ,'■ ," ^J'iiis is true. In fact, the principal oftices in 

• A 1 ^ I l-v! I nil hnt the Slate are now held by them ; and of tliose 

(except three just deceased ;) and of tntse all but ^^^^^^^ _^^^^^^^^ ^^^ .^^^^^^ _^^ ^,^j^ jj^^^ nincKj-tico 

TWO are known members of the present \Mii„ „„,,. ji(,id ot^pes of Whig appointment, 

party, and supporters of harnson. ,p^ ^^^^^.^ ^^^^ prominent Whig counsellora 

Adding Ihe eleven survivmg Senators and the Massachusetts. General Wilson says, is owing 



six surviving members of the Hartford Conven 
tion, who were not of the Legislature in 1814, 
and of tills aggregate of lunettj-niiir, survivors, all 
but three are°iiiodern Wliigs and Jlarrisonites ! 

Of tlie sixty-nine Massachusetts members wlio 
voted amdiik the Hartford Convention, but 
ttcclce survive. Of these, eight are still Demo- 
crats, one unknown, and but three are Harrison 
\Viiigs, viz. Lincoln, of Worcester, Gurney, of 
Boston, and Fish, of Falmouth. 

SURVIVING MEMBERS OF THE 
HARTFORD CONVENTION. 

The Massachusetts Legislature clioso tl>^se del- • ^^ b^p., confirmed in Boston 
egates to tiie convention, in convention, October •' ,„ji„„ ^^^ ^ ^,^^^ of tlianks 



I 



18, 1814. The Federalists cast 21.") votes, — the 

Republicans all refusing to act in this treasonable 

proceeding. 

The survivors of the Massachusetts delegates 

are, Hon. >>. S. H'ildc, (Judge of the Supreme 

Court;) Harrison Gray Oti.'>, (a member of Con- 
gress in 1801), and voted for .iuron Burr against 

Jefferson;) WilU.ain Prcsr.ott, (an e.-;- Judge and 

Justice for tiie commonwealth;) Undijah IhnjJirs, 

(Judge of I'robate till 18:54 ;) Daide' Waldo, (S.\i-a- 

tice of tiie Quorum ;) Siiphcu Longj'dlow, of I'ort- 

land; Joseph Lyman, (Sheriff of Hampshire, and 

commissioner to qualify olficers ;) and Thomis II. 
Perkins, (one of tlie com;nissi<,ners to treat with 
the I'resideiit; signed tlie Whig handbill, in 18:W, 
that I'eiiiisylvania iiad gone against Jackson.) 

Of (Jov.inor Strongs Coniicil, who advised the . ' . ,. ;f 

Hartford Convention, two only survive, and both ^""'J^-P ' ,■ T „,. i ;., iKelf hirhlv 

arc Wliig,., viz. Naiuim Mitcliell, memb.-r of tlie "The resolve ""^ ';';;'^ "V.f;'' f„ ,.k Is ^(coSl 
House, :md Benjamin F.ckn.an, the son of a dU- ^--^^li^Jl^f' ^,';^^:::,>'"^,i^t^^ lo 'the 
tinguished Tory of the re v.,lul,on, "'ember o the '^lj;f^ „,- „,, ,,J. 

Essex Junto, and one of the eomm.ttee to cele- H survivors who 

brate, in lJost..n, tlie restoration of the Bourbons. Ihi.s passeu, >o ''? °U". ^^, Thor.ns H Per- 

The only known survivors out of that conven- yoted>. U we le •'''«''''' Q''"^>;, ;;'''',;;, ..j a 
lion, out of Massachusetts, are correctly ascer- k-ns, S^nnuel I'u nam, S. ,is ''^r'^"' ''^"- '! ^„ 
tain d to be Calvin Goddard, an.l Roger M^ ^'. "!'"'«■ ^ ' ,^"""' »: ,n a .-i f > 
SiM.rman, of Connecticut, Benjamin Hazard, of ^V'f ''r ^,"''' ,> ''' .n ni e n I irr^^^^ 
Rhode bland and Josiali Dunham, a supernu- ^^^.J^^^C^^'J^::^::'^]^. 
merary from Vermont, now in Lexmgton, ken- all now i ommg >y m^ ^ >. . 

tucky' They are all Harrison Whigs. '*^;|Jff.? M^^Jhis^l's'^nate continued in Federal 

Here are one handled and fire of the direct * ,\'„' , „ iV//;,rm Fa'itis Secretary 

original Harlf.ird Convention school flow prom- hands till ^- '' ^J'^" (^^i^'^'J,^^^^^^^^^ 
inent Whigs, and Deviocrals, {>) as is pretended, of of War under Madison during the war, )^as eieciea 



in Massachusetts, General Wilson says, is owing 
tlie nomination of General Harrison ! Massaciiu- 
setts did it, and if the Whig party of Massachusetts 
directed the movement, who doubts that it is what 
Judge Hopkins, of Pennsylvania, described, viz., 
the old Federal party striving again to get into 
power .'' 

J03IAH QUI-VCY'S RESOLVE. 

As another test of identity, we will trace tlie 
resolve offered by Josiah Quincy, and adopted 
by tlie Federal Senate of Massachusetts, just 11 
days alter the gallant Lawrence was killed on 
board the Cliesapeake, tlie news of which had 
just been confirmed in Boston. A resolve was 
pending for a vote of tlianks to Captain James 
Lawrence for the capture of the Peacock by the 
Hornet. Instead of adopting that resolution, it 
was voted, on Josiah Quincy s motion, 
' Januarv, 15, 1813, " That in a war like the present, 
waited wrihout jiistiliable cause, it is not beco.mi.ng 

KAL AM) UKI.lfilOUS PEOPLE TO EXPRlCSS ANY 
APPliORATlON OF MILITAUY OR NAVAL EXPLOITS, 
WUltH AKK NOT IM.MWHATELY CONNECTEl) WITH 
HE DKFI.NCE OK OUK SEA-COAST AND SOIL.' 

'I'lie Jndcx of the old Senate Journal describes 
this resolve thus — " Declaring it unbecoming a 
nuinil and re'igLjas people to express approbation 
of sur.ee.^.'i in sach a war. 

It was passed without the yeas and nays. Feb- 
ruary 1-2, a motion to trtise it from the journal 
was reported against by a commiitee who s;iy in 



i; 



Democratic Governor of Massachusetts, and 
Marcus Morton, Licuteiiant-Goveincr. 

iittli S[,rugue, now a Democrat, wlio had voted 
atrainst the^Quincy resolution in 1:^14, was a 
nicmber again in 18:24. On his motion, it was 
resolved, 22 to 15, 

Jaiuiary 17, ISil, -'That ihe resolve of llie ISih of 
June, lol3, aiidtlie proanible \\\cxco\', he, and the same are 
hereby EXFUNGED/rum the journals of tin senate." 
'I'he survivors who voted against expunging, 
arc Thoinas H. Perkins, and Peter C. Brooks, of 
Boston, (tather-in-law of Governor Everett,) 
S. P. Gardner, of Bolton ; Thomas liongley, of 
Hawley, (who, in April 14, ISUd, supported in the 
Massachusetts Legislature a law to bo passed by 
Congress requiring iwentij-one years' residence in 
the Tjnited States' of all" foreigners before they 
shall be allowed to vote !) Aaron Tufts, of Dud- 
ley, (committee to receive John Bell ;) Benjanun 
Gorli.un, (afterwards sent to Congress;) Lewis 
Stronn-, and Joseph Strong, Jun. (now Whigs in 
New V'ork. Lewis Strong is a son of Governor 
Strong ,) Nathaniel P. Denny, and Samuel Hub- 
bard, of Boston. 

Ten out of the fifteen are now living, all Whigs, 
and each of them holding an office from a Whig 
governor ! Of the twenty-two who voted for 
expuugino-, thirteen survive, of whom nine are 
Democrats and tour Whigs. 

The names of the fourteen survivors in Massa- 
chusetls who voted against the Hartford Conven- 
tion, are, Eleazer C. Richardson, of Lynn ; John 
Wade, of Woburn ; Erastus Worlhington and 
Abner Ellis, of Dedham ; Gad Warriner, of West 
Springfield, (a revolutionary pensioner;) William 
P. Walker, of Lenox ; Phineas Allen, of Pittsfield ; 
Aaron Hobart, Jr. of Hanover; William P. Rider 
and John Spurr, of Charlton, (Mr. Spurr was 
the Democratic candidate for Senator last year ;) 
Christopher Webb, of Weymouth ; Nathan Gur- 
nev, Jr , of Abingt m, (now a Whig Alderman of 
Boston ;) Thonuis Fisii, of Falmouth ; and Levi 
Lincoln, of Worcester. Of these fiReen, there 
are but/o«;- Harrison men, including Mr. Webb, 
of Weymouth, who has long been enfeebled. The 
rest continue Democrats. 

OFFICES HELD BY HARTFORD f 
CONVENTION MEN. 

Of the survivors of the Federal party, who voted 
for the Hartford Convention, or against the war, 
in the Massachusetts Legislature, and were in 
that convention, siXTV-ErcHT now hold civil 
offices under Whig appointments. Among them 
are iwentij-nine of the most important offices in 
the state, viz. 1 Chief Justice of Supreme Court, 
2 Judges of Supreme Court, 1 Judge of Common 
Pleas, Ji Judges of Police, 5 Judges of Probate, 
1 Treasurer of the Commonwealth, 1 Member of 
Congress, 2 Registers of Probate, 1 Counsellor 
of State, '2 Commissioners, 1 City Solicitor, 2 
Sheriffs,! President of Harvard College, 1 Agent 
of Militia Claims, and 6 Members of the Legisla- 
ture, all modern Whigs. 

Verily are these men made judges and rulers 
over us ! 

THE HARRISON ELECTORS AND 
HARTFORD CONVENTION. 

Of the fourteen candidates now in nomination 
for Harrison electors in Massachusetts, all but 
two apostates are old Federalists, viz. 

Isaac C. Bates, Secretary of the Hampshire, 
Hampden, and Franklin Rebellion Convention to 
resist the war, July, 1312, and orator of the Wash- 



inirton Benevolent Society, and one of the Federal 
Committee of Safety, to oppose the Government 
during tli,e war, &c. &c. [Mr. Bates continues 
his warlike propensities against his own govern- 
ment. At a recent Whig gathering at Greenfield, 
he advised the Whigs, if they could obtain redress 
in no other manner, to take down their muskets, 
and pick their flints !] 

John B. Thomas, another Harrison elector, is 
a Federal sen of Joshua Tlioinas, a. member of the 
Hartford Convention. 

Robert G. Shaw, another, was a member of 
the Washington Benevolent Society in 1813, '14, or- 
ganized asT'ederal clubs to oppose the war. [See 
Stebbins's Directory of 1HK5.] 

Gkohg E Gri N N Ei.L, another elector, was a mem- 
ber of the same Federal conspiracy, and one of the 
Commiltee of Safety! appointed in 1812, by the 
Hampshire and Franklin Fedtral Convention, to 
oppose the war. 

VVjr.KEs Woon, another elector, voted for the 
Hartford Convention measures, in the Massachu- 
setts Senate ; voted to ai)i>rove the acts of that 
convention ; voted against a vote of thanks to 
Andrew Jackson for the battle of New Orleans; 
voted against admitting Louisiana into the Union ; 
voted not to procide for the U. S. direct tax to 
sustain the war in 1314 ; &c. &c. &c. 

^VHIG OFFICE-HOLDERS. 

Every one of these candidates for electors is a 
Whig ofpce-hcldcr, viz. Mr. Bates, Agent of Mi- 
litia Claims ; Mr. i7(«;c. Commissioner for building 
the Custom-house, President of a Board and Di- 
rector of Railroad ; Mr. Phiilips, Mayor of Salem ; 
Mr. Sprague, Justice of the Quorum ; Mr. Wil- 
lard, a State Senator ; Mr. Barton, Judge of Pro- 
bate ; Mr. Wood, Judge of Probate; Mr. GrinncU, 
Master in Chancerv ; Mr. Pomrroy, Justice of the 
Quorum ; Mr. MiJtcr. Justice for the Conmion- 
wealth ; Mr. fVfHf/f, Justice of the Quorum ; Mr. 
Tripp, the same ; and Mr. Thomas, Clerk of the 
Courts. Mr. Longley is only a Justice of Peace. 

This may serve as a specimen of the sincerity 
of the Whig horror o( ojjice-holders. 

FEDERAL ELECTORS WHO VOTED 
AGAINST MONROE. 

The Massachusetts Legislature chose twenty- 
two electors, Nov. 1810, to vote for Rufus King, 
the Federal candidate for President, against James 
Monroe. They had 193 votes in the Legislature, 
which then contained but 4G Democrats, who re- 
fused to vote. 

Of those electors, seven are now living, all Har- 
rison men, viz. Benjamin Pickman, Samuel S. 
Wilde, Daniel A. White, Thos. H. Perkins, and 
Stephen Longfellow, already described m the fore- 
going list. Also, Joseph Locke, Judge of Police 
in Lowell, and Jonas Kendall, of Leommster. 

Rev. Henry Colman, now Whig Commissioner 
on Agricultural Survey, appointed by Governor 
Everett, was the Messenger to carry the votes to 
Washington. 

OLD FEDERALISTS NOW IN CON- 
GRESS FROM MASS. 
In the present Massachusetts delegation, there 
are, Daniel Webster, the bitter opposer of the war 
from the beginning, and John Davis, the author 
of the Worcester 4th of July Oration in 181(5 ; 
Leverett Saltonstall, who supported the Hartford 
Convention in the House ; .'Ibhott iMicrence, a 
member of the " Washington Benevolent Society" 
to resist the war ; [see Stebbins's Directory, 1813 ;] 
John Reed, elected to Congress in 1813, over 



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14 



I. L. Greene, who had voted for the war. Mr, Roed 
was a member of the Barnstable Federal Rebellion 
Convention to denounce the war, of which " Squire 
David Scudder" was President. While in Con- 
gress, he voted against every possible measure 
to sustain the war, and virulently denounced 
Madison "and Jefferson, miliam S. Hastings, a 
uniform Federalist, is the son of Seth Haslinlrs, a 
1' ederal member of Congress in 1801 , who voted for 
Burr against Jefferson. Wm. B. Cafhuim, always 
a federalist and U. S. Bank man, supported the 
ten million Bank in Massachusetts. Jolin Quhtai 
JMams need only be named. Led Lincoln is an 
apostate republican, now actincr ^vith the men 
who opposed his father, Levi Lmcohi, from 1800 
to his death, and the son till his desertion in 1826. 
Mr. Bnggs, we believe, is also an apostate. Cush- 
tiig is too young to have acted in the war, but has 
since been plated alf over with the Silver Greiis 
and petted by the Essex Junto. 

Wii.LiA.M Parmk.ntkr, who now '"supports Mr. 
V an Buren, was Secretary of a Republican Mid- 
dlesex Convention, to nominate officers in 1814 
and a uniform war Democrat. ' 

MASS. REPRESENTATIVES YS CO\- 
GRESS DURING THE WAR. 

Of these, every living man then from Massa- 
chH.sett.s but one who opposed the war in Con-.TCss, 
IS now a Uanisun man, viz. Solinmm stiun<r, 
(Judge;) Jului Reed, (now a member;) Lalmi 
fVht'iton, Willunn Baylies, Harrison Gray Otis, 
Josiuk Qiiincy, Jirtimas Ward, and Daniel IVeb- 
sler, then of N. il. 

Massachusetts, since the Constitution, has elect- 
ed 17o men as members of Congress. Of these 
4'J are now living ; LI7 were elected as Federalists', 
and of these all but two are now Harrison men ; 
12 were elected as Democrats, amcmg them Mar- 
cus Morton, and all but five are now opjiosed to 
Harrison; (2 doubtful.) The apostates are Crown- 
ingshield, John Holmes, (a Federalist in 1804 ) 
Shaw, Silsbee, and Judge Story. ' 



elder Adams, and tliat he has seen him wear the blacK 
cvckade. [Morning Posl.] 

[CT^Vell— he could not iiave worn a 7nore honora- 
ble li,id:r^, nor could he have supported a better man 
J\otc, wc shall cerlaiiily go lor Harrison. [Courier.] 

The Whig Rcpubliciin, a veliement Harrison 
paper, iias just been started in Boston by Dr 
Joseph Palmer, editor of the Centinel till trans- 
ferred to the Advertiser. Mr. Buckimrham, of 
the Courier, thus vouches for him : — - ° 

"He has one qualification, which we are almost 
afraid to name, lesW it may do him an injury wiih some 
of our exclusive patriots ; but yet we feel so proud of 
tlie concurrence of seniinicnt on political matters, which 
has ahvays existed between us. tiiat we cannot refrain 
'^'°'I'..^'';^!"S "'at Dr. Palmer /*■ „ jmpil of the old school 
of \vashiiigton and Adams Federalism— Uuc to the 
licart s core, and not ashamed to avow his prii,e!}:les." 

laUa" f^**"' *^''''^' '^^s not establislied until 
i>i-i2. It has uniformly been under the control 
of the Boston Federalists, and outstripped all 
others in abuse of Jackson, V.an Buren. and Mor- 
ton, and in supporting Hartford Convention men 
and the United Statues Bank. The Federalists of 
Boston make it their principal Harrison organ. 

Throughout Massaclmselts there is not now a 
paper which opposed the war, that is not a sun- 
I)orter of General Harrison. 

The Worcester Spy, now one of the most viru- 
lent Harrison papers, is also the oldest Federal 
press in Massachusetts. In 1814 it was edited hy 
John Daris, who is now the Whiir candxiate for 
governor against Marcus IMorton. "I'he loliewin-.- 
extracts from Mr. Davis's editoriah;. in the inidsl 
of the war, just after he had exulted at the burn- 
ing of the Capitol, the 24th of August, I8i4, will 
show where he (^ver has been and ever menus 
to be. 



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THE OLD FEDERAL NEWSPAPERS 

OK MAS.SACIIUSETTS. 

These are all now supporters of Harrison 

viz. : ' 

The Boston Daily Jidvertiser, Repertory, Centi- 
nel, Palladigm, and Gazette, united as the Ad- 
vertiser, edited by Kalhan Hale, one of the stand- 
ing committee of the Washington Benevolent 
Society during the war. One extract from his 
paper will show where he ever has been and 
ever means to be. 

" My ])lan is to withhold our money and make a sep- 
arate peace with England." [Boston Daily Advertiser 
1814.] ' 

The Boston Evening Gazette, a Harrison paper 
M conducted by W. W. Clapp, who was jirinter 
of the Daily Advertiser, and a member of the 
Washington Benevolent Society during the war. 

The Transcript, another Harrison jiress, is edit- 
ed by a son of a member of the above society, 
who voted for the Hartford Convention. 

The Courier, auotlier Harrison pa|)er, is edited 
by Jo.seph T. Bu(kiii<rliam, who now glories in 
the declaration, " 1 vill lire and die in the faith 
of the Hartford Conrcniion." 

The reasons why he supports Harrison are thus 
given by himself: — 

[FfdiH the noston Courier, July 18, 1810.] 
The Hon. Mr. FowUir, who was a member of Con- 
pso wilh Harrison, has published ;i lelU-r, in which 
he says that lie knew Harrison as a supporter of the 



[Extracts from the Spy, editeil hy .lolm Davis, in JSM.] 
" VVc have uniformly entered our solemn proicsl 
against this desolating war, which oriainulf-d in the 
wicked, malignant passions of a cornnjt and imb'ciic 
government." 

"No republican peo])le were ever so harassed, per- 
plexed, and disgraced, by a captious and corrupt sot of 
rulers, as the people of this country.''* 
P'Such a government is worse than none." 

" The truth is, our Democrats love to talk of war. and 
swagger, and boast, and vaunt, but they abhor fighting. 
When danger approaches, thev skulk" like dastardlu 
poltroons." ' 

" Tiie evils the Federalists ha\-e long predicted, are 
thickening upon us, and in our alllictinn let us always 
remeinbcr, il is James Madison and his parly that have 
brought these calamities on us." 

'• We hope, and believe, liie people will soon he con- 
vinced, that Mr. Madison is totally incompetent to hold 
the reins of government." 

'•If the people have not become slocks and stones, 
so as to bear any thing, they must (eel ashamed of their 
President, and their indignaiion will never subside till 
he is iMPKACUEU, and the government coniniiited to 
other hands." 

" Tliis wanton waste of properly, this perverse neg- 
lect of duty, is sudicienl lo brand any adniinistralion 
with eternal infamif." 

In this violent Federal press, Mr. John Davis, 
as its editor, applied the following epithets to 
Jamf.s Madiso.s : — 

" 'I'liis modem Nero — this worthless confederate of 
Boiiaiiarie." — " Despised at home and abroad." — 



* Almost Ihc jfon/.s- nspel by Alitiott Lawrence, the Whig 
member of Conjjrcsq Irom Boston, at the ten pent rphellioa 
meetiii* nlioiil specie fur postage, in Fanenil Hall, Mny 17, 
IKH. — " No people on (Jod's eurlli hns boon ko trampled on 
i\nd iibnseil by tlieir rulers ns th« people of the United States," 
■uid Mr. Luwrence. 



•1 '^ 

1,^ 



"This obstinate, infatuated man, — plunges us into a 
wanton, wicked war — a enticing coward." — '-Our 
cowardly Captain-General galloped his poor beast 
tliirty miles from the battle ground." — " The baseness, 
cowardice, and perfidy of James Madison." — '• The 
crazy head" — '-disgraceful conduct — idle vaunting 
and braggadocio ; the more cowardly he acts, the more 
heroically he talks,'" &c. &c. 

" The conduct of such a man, (says John Davis,) is 
in the highest measure disgusting and degrading ! Can 
we wonder that England dallies with us, when she has 
such a ButrooN to deal with? " 

Such is the old Federal frenzy of John Davis, the 
man these pretended " Harrison Democrats," and 
" JetFerson disciples," now seek to make Gov- 
ernor of ISIassacluisetts, over one of the truest 
Democrats that ever lived. 

Thus much for the identity of old Hartford 
Convention Federalism in Massaclmsetts, with 
the modern Britisii Whig Harrison party. 

Tlie same result might be shown in the other 
New England Slates, and elsewhere. We have 
not access to the records. A sample will suffice. 

VIRGINIA. 

The Richmond Enquirer of August, 1840, states 
tiie fact, that in 1800 the city of Richmond gave 
"254 votes for John Adams. 33 survive, and all 
but one are Harrison men. 91 voted for JefFer- 
sDu; 6 survive, and all but one are for Van 
Buren. 

CONNECTICUT. 

Two members of the Hartford Convention, and 
the secretary of that convention, are now living, 
viz. Roger M. Sherman, Calvin Goddard, and 
THF.onoKE DwioHT. All are Harrison Whigs, 
riie Connertictit CouraiU. th« organ of the Whig 
party in that State, and always a Federal paper, 
is edited by Theodore Dwight. It is not e.xccUed 
for bitternpss, intolerance, and every thing anti- 
Democratic. 

A friend in Hartford writes — " So far as I am 
informed, the connections of every member of the 
Hartford Convention from this state are ' Wliigs.' 
Truman Smith, the member of Con.gress, and 
one of the Wljig Executive Committee with 
Saltonstall, Clarke, Botts, &c., is a nephew of 
Nathaniel Smith, a deceased member of that con- 
vention." 

VERMONT OLD FEDERALISTS AND 
HARRISON MEN. 

Hon. C. P. Van Ness, in a recent address be- 
fore a Democratic Convention, in Vermont, states 
the following fact: — 

" In the j'ear 1813, the Federalists obtained a ma- 
jority in the House of Assembly of this Slate. A res- 
olution was proposed that the members of both Houses 
should convene, on a day mentioned, to ofler up thanks 
to Almighty God for the victor\' obtained by the Amer- 
ican army under Harrison, near the river Thames, over 
the combined forces of the Britisii and Indians. On 
the question of passing the resolution, ninety-five, all 
Republicans, voted in favor of it, and every Federalist 
against it, there being one hundred and eight Federalists 
(dial is, for war with their own government,) and I 
affirm, that but onk of these has come over to our 
parly. I aUo find that thirty-three of them are now 
dead. BUT OF THE SEVENTY-FIVE LIVING 
ONES, EVERY MAN — except the ONE already 
alluded lo — IS A THOROUGH-GOING MOD- 
ERN WHIG." 

In an address before the Mountain State Dem- 
oeratic Association, July I9th, 1840, C. G. East- 
man, Esq., cites notices calling meetings of the 
Washington Benevolent Society, by its Secreta- 
rJes and Commitces, lo oppose the war, fiom 1812 



to 18]o, which were signed by Horace Everett, 
(now VVhig Member of Congress,) David Pitrce^ 
(now Judge of the County Court,) Thamas F. 
Hammond, (now Judge of Frobatc,) Oel HillingSf 
(now Register of Frobate.) Darius Junes, (editor 
of a Whig Harrison paper.) and A'orman ll'iliiams, 
(Clerk of the Court,) all le;^lers of the present 
Whig party. Mr. Everett, the member of Con- 
gress, was "Agent of the Washington ian " in 
1814, a vile Federal print, published by Josiali 
Dunliam, a volunleer member of the Hartford 
Convention, and now a live Whig ! 

THE WASHINGTON BENEVOLENT 
SOCIETIES. 

The character of these treasonable Federal 
Clubs, which perverted the name of Wa.t^hington, 
as the modern Federalists do that of li'Jiig and 
Dimocrat, and their close affinity to the present 
Whig Associations, with their Harrison banners, 
shows and parades, will be seen from the ibllow- 
ing facts. 

The Preamble of the Constitution of the Mas- 
sachusetts W. 15. Society, organized February, 
1812, says — 

" The W. B. Society of Massachusetts was founded 
by a number of patriotic []) young men, determined to 
exert ihemsehes lo rei-tore the reign of Washington 
principles and measures, and to relieve those of their 
brethren, who, by the prcs-mre of the times, might be 
reduced from a stale of compelency to wreUhedness 
and ruin." . 

This is the origin of the modern Whig cry of 
ruin, laid to the Administration. It was also the 
same trick now practised to seduce the laboring 
classes. Each member was required to sign a 
pledge, as the Whig Harrison Clubs now require, 
and there were to be monthly meetings and ad- 
dresses, and public celebrations and parades. 
William Sullivan, the H^irtford Convention Am- 
bassador, thus describes these Federal Clubs, in 
his Familiar Letters of 1834, page 325 : — 

" In 1SI2 the opponents of the Administralien (Mad- 
ison) found it ?iecessari) lo combine, to obtain ihat pro- 
tection which their rn/er.^ seemed voluntarily to have 
withdraivn. For sucli reasons they associated under 
the name of the " Washington Benevolent Societies," 
throughout the stale, (Massachusetts.) The difierent 
vocations among the mechanics had their respective 
banners, l)earing appropriate einlj/ems of their calling. 
There were otiier banners, which bore the mottoes of 
peace, union, fidelity, patriotism, 6z.c. In the annual 
processions these banners were carried through the 
streets. The frowns and attempts of the war party 
(Democrats) to make these Societies objects of SU9* 
picion, and render them odious, served only to strength- 
en them, and convince their members of their necessity. 
If the day shall erer come when the tike perils shall 
overtake the good citizens of the United States, LET 

THEM RKMKMBER THIS EXAMPLE." 

Who can doubt that this hint of Mr. Sullivan 
hag led to 'the present Tipjiecanoe Clubs, with 
their banners, parades, pledges, log cabins, and 
hard cider ! 

Mr. Sullivan adds, — " Wlien the causes which pro- 
duced these combinations [the war] ceased, these also 
ceased ; but their banners are still preserved, and are 
occasionnllij produced lo decorate the " Cradle of 
Liberty." 

Some of these banners have been exhibited, 
together with a portrait of Caleb Strong, the 
Federal governor in the war, at recent Harrison 
meetings in Massachusetts. One, at least, was at 
the convention that nominated John Davis for 
Governor. 

Thomas Powkr, Esq., was the Whig orator for 
the 4th of July last, in the city of Boston. This 



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same gentleman delivered an oration, July 4lh, 
1815, bci'oie tlie Wasliington Benevolent So- 
ciety, at Warwick, Mass. He-now goes strong 
for Harrison, is Clerk of a Court, and is one of the 
pretended " Jeiferson school," in the Atlas Har- 
rison tactics. In his oration in 1815, he said — 

" Jefferson imported a French editor to subvert 
Federal princiijles, and establish his own on their 
ruins. 'I'liis man was exalted to the hig-hesl oifice by 
the unceasing exertions of a party, which, under the 
various names of Dkmocrats, Jacobins, and Repub- 
licans, retained the .same principles and views by which 
they were first distinguished. Charity can never form 
a veil to hide the duirk atrocities wliicli signalize that 
memorable period. [Jefibrson's administration.] From 
that time the clouds of adcersitij blackened our political 
horizon, and the sun of Liberty was dimmed with the 
pestilential vapors of a desperate faction." 

Of JVlADisojf, he says — 

" Mr. Jetferson's best act was now performed ; he 
retired frcjm office. To him succeeded Madison. A 
perfect parallel in political feeling, he pursued the same 
ruinous course; — a mere satellite, and appendage to 
a wretch whose friendship is founded in perfidy." 

" The events of the late war completely characterize 
tlie Administration. It was commenced in wickedness, 
prosecuted with weakness, and closed with disgrace I " 

" The Administration has nearly ruined our commerce, 
lost some of the most lucrative branches of trade, and 
brought povertij and distress on a great portion of the 
country." 

After Mr. Thomas Power had achieved this 
brilliant oration in 1815, the Federalists gave him 
this affecting toast — 

"The orator of the day. Eloquent, patriotic, and 
pathetic ; [very !] with the Federal heel of hisUiric truth, 
he has bruised the heads of our partij-colored demo- 
cratic French Serpents." 

Who can doubt that this Harrison Whig orator 
of 1840, is " where he ever has been and ever 
means to be.' " 



We have now discharged a great duty, as we 
view it, to the country, and esi)ecially to her 
young men. Laborious as it has been to collect 
these facts, truth and the times demand it. We 
should have been reluctant to have revived these 
recollections, had not our opponents souglit to 
clieat the people by basely attempting to change 
the names of the two parties. This deception 
cannot avail in New England, for tlie men who 



meanly descend to use it are known ; but at the 
South and West, where all were patriots and all 
Rei)ublicans in the war, the landmarks may be 
removed, or at least disturbed, by these forgers of 
false titles to the confidence of the people, if the^ 
are not exposed. 

Tiie facts we have here disclosed, belong to the 
wliole country. Let them be used by every man 
who loves that country, to prevent the remotest 
possibility of the Democracy of the South and, 
West coming under the old Hartford Convention 
rule, in the disguise of Wliig Harrisonism. 

The Harrison party is the reorganization of the 
old Federal party. Driven from power by their 
real principles, the leaders are desperately strug- 
gling once more to regain their lost ascendency, 
by denying their own identity. This, one of their 
great men foresaw they would do fifteen years ago. 

When the Democratic Eustis was elected Gov- 
ernor of iVIassachusetts in 1824, and in his message 
placed the seal of infamy on the Hartford Con- 
vention, Harrison Gray Otis, his Federal op- 
ponent, addressed to the governor a series of let- 
ters in defence of that measure. 

In the close of that defence, lie threatened that 
if the Federalists and their '■'■families" continued 
to find themselves excluded from office in the 
nation, tliey would, first or last, from feelings of 
hitler resentment, be driven to organize them- 
selves again as a party ; and if they should not 
succeed, the consequences were to be the old 
story of ruin to the country. 

The first prediction of Mr. Otis is fulfilled. 
The last no race of his will live to see. The 
Hartford Convention Federalists, and "their 
FAMILIES," are reorganized in a spirit of more 
" Litter resentment " than ever before inflamed 
their desperate ambition and greediness for power. 
They have put forward, as their great expounders 
and reformers, Daniel Webster and his associates. 

" The sifr7iijicnnt banner" has been consecrated 
by the Boston Federalists with its motto — 

" JVe are where we ever have been and ever 
mean to be." 

And in the name of the assembled Federal 
hosts, Daniel Webster exclaims at Alexandria — 

" WE HAVE MADE WiLLIAM HeNRY HaRRI- 
SON THE BEARER OF OUR STANDARD, AND WHILE 

HE HOLDS IT, IT SHALL NOT falter unless WE 

FALL ALONG WITH IT ! " 



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APPENDIX. 



The following disclosures, of recent date, throw 
much light on tlie dark designs of the Hartford 
Convention : — 

IMPRESSION THE BRITISH HAD OF THE 
HARTFORD CONVENTION. 

" Colonel C. G. Greene, 

" Dear Sir : The following statement was handed 
to me,, in the liand-writing of Mr. Aaron Wallis, of Ips- 
wich, in June last, without my having the sliditest pre- 
vious knowledge that any such facts were in his posses- 
sion. I have known Mr. Wallis for the last eight years, 
particularly, and should place implicit reliance in his 
statements. No man's character stands fairer for up- 
rightness : he is a member of the vestry, and treasurer 
of the Episcopal Church in Ipswich. Mr. Wallis impli- 
cates no one. He relates the conversation of the British 
officer, which he has distinctly retained ever since it oc- 
curred, and which made a deep impression on him. He 
is ready to attest to the statement ; but the laws of this 
conimonweallh will not admit of an extrajudicial oath. 

" My attention has been called to this striking disclo- 
sure of Mr. Wallis by extracts, just published in the 
Globe, from the British United Service Journal 
of ]\lay last, and the declaration that there is a corre- 
sjioiidoucc in existence, which would disclose facts that 
uoulil fully warrant the statements made by the British 
Miiior at Halifax. Yours truly, 

B. F. HALLETT." 

•'■ Sir : After perusing Mr. Parmenter's speech, in re- 
l;ili(in lo the Hartford Convention, I find a very impor- 
tant part oniined, viz. the view the British took of their 
assembling together. 

" JSeing at that lime at Halifax, a prisoner of war, at 
work, with John Shatswell of Salem, and Alexander 
Blark *of New York, in the King's Store, on the north 
siile of the Parade, at Melville Island, in the winter of 
I;;i4, one Major Nickholds, or Nichols, of the 90lh or 
DJd regiment, (I think the 92d,) acting', as was said, as 
assistjuit quaricrmaster-general of his majesty's forces 
ai Halifax, came on to the Island about 2 o'clock, P. M. 
After transacting some business with the Royal Artillery- 
man, with relation to the telegraphic flags, &c.,he came 
into the store, where Shatswell and myself were making 
a chest of drawers, and Black a sleigh, all for Captain 
Cuclietl of the roval navy, the transport agent for pris- 
oners, — and said, ' Well, boys, what are you at?' — 
'.Vt work for the agent, sir.' After inquiring as to our 
fare, treatment, &c., he said, ' Well, boys, wliere do you 
belong ? ' Shatswell and myself hailed from Salem, and 
Black from New York. ' How long have you been 
here ? ' We answered according to time ; when he im- 
mediately said to Shatswell and myself, that we should 
be sent home in a few days, as the Nantucket men had 
been. We inquired the cause ; and he immediately 
stated, that ' a convention of deleratcs from the New 
England Slates meet this day at Ilartford, for the pur- 
pose of withdrawing from the Union and declaring their 
neutrality, when all the New England men will be sent 
home, as the Nantucket men have been, immediately.' 

" We made inquiry how this was to be brought about, 
and he replied, ' The whole has been arranged. The 
fleet in Boston Bay will watch a favorable wind, and 
a|)pear off" the Light, when the troops at South Boston 
will take up their line of march through Boston for 
Charlestown. ostensibly for the protection of the Navy 
Yard, but in fact to prevent Commodore Bainbridge 
from shedding blood. The fleet will sail up past the 
Castle, without firing a gun ; and the troops at Charles- 
town will immediately march into the Navy Yard ; and 
the choice officers, already selected, will surround Com- 



modore Bainbridge, and say lo him. Sir, do j-ourself 
no harm ; 3'ou must not burn powder this day ; and no 
one will hurt you. The fleet will anchor oft" Lon^ 
Wharf, and all will be quiet immediately, as the Navsd 
Commander has his orders to place Harrison Gray Otis 
at the head of afiairs, until the pleasure of the Prince 
Regent is known. All this has been arranged among 
the leading men, but will not be made public until the 
fleet anchors off* Long Wharf.' f 

"Black inquired, 'What will you do with ??ie?' — 
'As )'ou belong to New York, you must ride it out : we 
shall not go to New York — only to the New England 
States.' — 'By God,' said Blacky ' you had better not go 
there ; you will find old Tompkins at home!' 

" So sanguine was Major Nickholds of the success of 
the whole plot, that he declared his belief that the five- 
striped flag would fly at the State House in less than 
one fortnight. He further stated that we should know 
all about it in a few days, as a gun-brig or sloop-of- 
war, (I think a gini-brig,) had .sailed forCastine, a week 
ago, to fetch down the news, and would be back short- 
ly, when we should know all about it. 

" Sir: When j'ou was at Ipswich, last fall, I stated to 
you that I supposed I was in possession of some facts, 
in relation to the Hartford Convention, that I was desi- 
rous of making known, but dared not, for fear of the 
consequences lo my family. The above are the facts 
alluded lo at that time. They are now at your disposal, 
provided you work them into the history of our country 
where they belong. 

" Your obedient servant, 
(Signed,) AARON WALLIS." 

" Ipm'ich, Jime 24, 1840. 

" To B. F. Hallett, Esq." 

Tlie British United Service Journal of May, 1840, 
discloses the following facts, which tend strongly 
to corroborate the testimony of Mr. Wallis. 
It is hardly necessary to say that Mr. W. never 
saw this work, which was published last May, in 
Great Britain, and which holds a semi-official rank 
as the chronicler of the military and naval service. 
[From the British United Service Journal.] 

" Amongst the many dangers to which the American 
Republic must always be exposed in a war with Great 
Britain, not die least is that of a split among Uiemsclvcs, 
and consequent break up of their Federal Union. The 
slave question is a wedM strong enough to eflect this at 
any time; but we could employ another nearly as pow- 
erful." 

After stating that the Western States were in 
favor of the war, the British writer adds — 

" Not so with die New Englanders ; they, on the 
contrary, began to cast about to see how lliey could 
best extricate themselves from the strait to which die 
mad policy of Mr. Madison and the General Govern- 
ment had driven them. The inhabitants of the island 
of Nantucket made an overture to our commander-in- 
chief to remain perfectly neutral during the war, exclu- 
ding ihe armed vessels of both belligerents from their 
harbors ; whilst in another quarter, a far more extensive 
scheme of 'nullification' was seriously set on foot, and 
began to make rapid progress amongst some of the 
most respectable and nifluenlial inhabitants of New 
England." 

With these originated the Hartford Convention, 
and the object of that body, the British writer 
says, 

" Was to separate the Northern and Eastern from 
the SoiUhem and Western States, to establish a limited 



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nonarchy in the first named States, placing one of our 
princes of tlie blood on the throne, and strengthening 
tlie WW transatlantic kingdom, by an alliance offensive 
and defensive ivit-h Eitgland. The treaty at Ghent put 
a stop to the correspondence, which was in active prog- 
ress on this subject, but that corresponde.nce is 
STILL IN EXISTENCE j and however improbable it may 
appear to Yankee pride, were a war to break out ag-ain 
between us, something similar would occur before the 
' United States ' were two years older. The destruc- 
tion OF THE PUBLIC BUILDINGS AT THE NOMINAL 
SEAT OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, IT WAS CON- 
CEIVED, WOULD INDIRECTLY, IF NOT DIRECTLY, 
FORWARD THE VIEWS OF THE NeW ENGLAND SEP- 
ARATISTS." — United Service Journal of May, 1840. 

This avowal seems to explain the extraordinary- 
conduct of the British officers in destroying the 
public buildings at Washington, contrary to all 
usages in civilized warfare. Was it to aid the 
Northern Federalists in establishing a separate 
seat of government elsewhere ? Was this the 
reason that Mr. John Davis exulted at the burn- 
ing of the Capitol ? Was this the reason that 
Daniel Webster and his Federal associates voted 
against rebuilding it ? 

The preliminaries to the Hartford Convention 
had their origin in John Henry's mission to New 
England, in 1809. The British Governor thus 
instructed Henry. 

" Governor Craig's instructions to Henry, dated 
" Quebec, February, 1809. 

"I request you to proceed with the earliest convey- 
ance to Boston — obtain accurate information. The 
wealth of MsLssachusetts — the number of ils inhabit- 
ants — the known intelligence and ability of set^eral of 
its leading men, must give it a considerable influence 
over the other Eastern States, and will probably lead 
them in the part they are to take. Your judgment and 
connections there will guide you. 

" I use general terms in describing the object in view. 
It has been supposed that if the Federalists of the East- 
ern States should be successful, and obtain tlie decided 
influence which maj* enable them to direct the public 
opinion, it is not improbable that, rather than submit, 
they will exert that influence to bring about a sep- 
aration FROM THE general UNION. How far in 
such an event will they look to England for assist- 
ance, or be disposed to enter into a connection 
WITH us! 

"You are not to appear as an avowed agent— con- 
tinue to* obtain an intitnacy with the leaders, and cau- 
tiously advise them, that if ihoy wish to enter into any 
communication with tins Government, you will traiismit 
it to me." 

Henry, in his letters to his employer, thus de- 
scribed, in 1809, what actually was begun, and, 
but for the peace, would have been consummated 
in ItilG 



, " Boston, March 6, 1809. 
"I have alreadj^ given a decided opinion that a 
declaration of war is not to be expected : but contrary 
to all reasonable calculation, should Congress possess 
spirit and independence enough to place their popu- 
larity in jeopardy by so strong a measure, THE 
LEGISLATURE" OF MASSACHUSETTS WILL 
GIVE THE TONE TO THE NEIGHBORING 
STATES; WILL DECLARE ITSELF PER.VIA- 
NENT UNTIL A NEW ELECTION OF MEM- 
BERS; INVITE A CONGRESS, TO BE COM- 
POSED OF DELEGATES FROM THE FED- 
ERAL STATES, AND ERECT A SEPARATE 
GOVERNMENT FOR THEIR COMMON IN- 
TEREST. A. B." 

To the same effect, in his letter from Burling- 
ton, Vermont, the British Spy pledged that State 
to rebellion, tjirough the Federalists. He said — 

" The Federal party declare that, in the event of a 
war, U;;^ the state of Vermont will treat separately for 
itself with Great Britain ; and support, to the utmost, 
the stipulations into which it may enter, without any 
regard to the policy of the general government." 

There is one man living, who has in his posses- 
sion the evidence to prove the design of the Fed- 
eralists to establish a Northern confederation. He 
declared this in his reply to Mr. Otis and twelve 
otiier leading Federalists of Boston, the 2Gth of De- 
cember, 1S23. That man is John Quincy Adams. 
He is now with the Federalists, and, therefore, 
unless lie should chan^ again, will, most likely, 
let the proof die with him. The fact that he pos- 
sesses this evidence, may account for the extraor- 
dinary docility with which the Boston Federalists 
have always submitted to his castigations, and 
always received him into favor, let him do or say 
what he would. There is one passage in his kl- 
ter to Messrs. Otis, &c., of 1828, which strikingly 
coincides with the declaration of Major Nichols 
to Mr. Wallis. 

Extract from Mr. Adamses Letter. 

" It was in those letters of 1808 and 1809, that I men- 
tioned the design of certain leaders of the Federal parly, 
and tlie establishment of a Northern confcderar v, &c. 

" Tliis plan was so far matured, that the pr<«f()s;il 
had been niaile to an individual at the proper time, to 
be placed at the head of the military tnoveiuent wUkU. it 
was foreseen, would be necessary for carrying it into 
execution. 

" The interposition of a kind Providence avert, d the 
most deplorable of catastrojihes. and, turning over to the 
receptacle of things lost upon earth the adjourned ((in- 
vention from Hartford to Boston, extinguished (by ihe 
mercy of Heaven, may it be forever!) the projected 
New England confederacy." 



REFERENCE. 

The preccdinjT statements have been proimred at the solicitation of many frienils of the 
Admiiiistnition in distant States, wlicre the Whigs are assuming to be the real Democratic party, 
and are attempting to practise tiiis deception upon the pcoiile. The facts are derived from the 
public records, tlie Federal newspapers of that period, and through direct information from 
persons near the localities of the individuals namgd. As nothing but the names would render 
the facts indisputable, they have been given, and for no otlier reason. The details are believed 
to be strictly accurate in every essential particular. It is probable that all the survivors have 
not been ascertained. Tlieir names, however, would unquestionably increase the aggregate 
results as they now stand. 

For the purpose of giving tlii.s assurance to those at a distance, who may copy or refer to 
this statement, and to furnidh a reference, should any of the facta be called in question in 

other States, we attach our names. _ „^ ^ ^^^„,tt^ 

CHARLES G. GREENE, 

Boston, Jlugusl, 1810. ^ B. F. HALLETT. 



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